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

Governing is different than campaigning, and that comes with a whole different level of responsibility.

If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sure those Americans who have suffered as a consequence of past agreements have an effective social safety net, adjustment assistance, opportunities for retraining and new job creation that enables all Americans to thrive.

I was conscious of the fact that it could be to my disadvantage to marry a white guy - that some folks would hold that against me.

Nobody's tried to touch my hair in like, in decades.

What I learned is that policymakers have to force consideration of actions that may not have occurred to them at the time.

What we have done is when the threat has been directed at the United States, i.e., the terrorist threat from ISIL or Al-Qaeda in Syria, is to go after them.