President Obama is perhaps the smartest person I've ever worked with.

It's not the day in which I grew up, long time ago, where we had three news networks. No cable, no social media, no internet. Where what you see is what you got. We had basically straight journalism. We don't have that anymore.

The United States share of the African market it's very small, it's only about 8 percent.

I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.

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 can't let others judge information for us.

I do leisure reading but I don't get to do it like, at one in the morning. When I getting up at six in the morning, so I do most of my leisure reading on vacation and on airplanes and that sort of stuff.