We must be honest in acknowledging that neither Germany nor the US has the luxury of assuming that we can skate by on half-measures in Afghanistan and Pakistan and not risk suffering the consequences.

It's in our interest to continue with the Paris Agreement and to deal with climate change as the real threat it actually is.

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

South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa.

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.

I've been very lucky to have had a supportive family, a great education, enormous opportunity and challenge.

I am a team player - and that is what you need to be an effective point guard. You gotta see the court, you gotta set up the play, and you gotta let others execute for the most part. I don't throw elbows for the sake of throwing elbows, but if somebody throws one at me and it's necessary to respond in kind, I suppose I can if I have to.