The youth thing never really, from my vantage point, slowed me down. I think the harder audience for me to gain acceptance from was the career diplomatic corps that worked with and for me in the Africa Bureau.

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 larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.

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

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.