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

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.

Americans are hungry for change both at home and in our relations with the rest of the world.

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.

Change doesn't happen with people sitting on their behinds, getting lazy.

We are patriots in my family, we are believers in America, we're believers in democracy.

I may not be able to work for anybody else again. I may just have to work for myself.