I spend every day up at the United Nations where I have to interact with 192 other countries. I know how well the United States is viewed.

The kids are Job One. So, to be quite candid, if they need me, I do my utmost to make sure I'm there.

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

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.

Focus on something that stirs your soul, it's hard to excel at anything that you don't love.

I read a ton of paper every day. I read the newspapers, I read my intelligence materials, I read all the briefing materials. I read the newspaper in hard copy.

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