Americans understand that our security is enhanced when the United States is trusted and respected in the world.

Change doesn't happen with people sitting on their behinds, getting lazy.

I have no regrets whatsoever that I have acted in a way to advance my country's interests

The United States of America is the leading power in the world. Our friends and our adversaries respect us in large measure because they know that we are steady. We are fact-based. We are serious.

We have to know who we are and know what we believe.

I am very aware of being black and female because that's what I am.

We're well aware, and we have been for a long time, that there is a real threat from adversaries, state actors, non-state actors, to hack us, influence us, destroy stuff through cyber means. Because cyber threat has been understood for a while, it's longstanding, it's a concern.