My kids are my salvation.... It's a delight to walk in and get charged by a five-year-old and a two-year-old. That'll make you forget the darkness.

Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.

I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.

Without investing in the rule of law for the poor, none of the other investments we make will be sustainable.

Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.

I was interning in the CBS sports affiliate in Atlanta with Robin Roberts.... I was taking notes on a Braves-Padres game, and on the live feed came footage of these kids protesting and getting crushed during the Tiananmen Square uprising in China in 1989. In that moment I became like a lot of young people in this country today, horrified and inspired but confused as to what I might do.

I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.