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

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

The notion that I had become a political lightning rod was painful for me to experience.

I don't get drunk, I get a little happy on rare occasion, and I'm probably dancing if I'm that happy.

I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.

Iran's economy is now shrinking by 1 percent a year. Its oil production is down 40 percent.

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.