I like to think that with me, what you see is what you get, and you can like or dislike it, it's up to you, but it's straight. That's something that I pride myself on.

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

There are no cookie-cutter solutions that you can apply from one circumstance to another. They're different. Our interests, as implicated, are different. The tools we have at our disposal are different.

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

We know that weapons, heavy weapons continue to flow across the border from Russia into Ukraine. And we have now, in recent days, indications that Russians - Russian military units themselves have, on occasion, fired into Ukraine.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

I have no regrets whatsoever that I have acted in a way to advance my country's interests