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 am very aware of being black and female because that's what I am.

You have to make change.

The United States share of the African market it's very small, it's only about 8 percent.

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

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

Syria is a civil war. Syria began as a popular uprising, just like the other experiences in the Arab Spring, with a repressive government that responded by basically killing the protesters. It's not a genocide, it's a war, and there's a difference. Genocide is a preplanned attack on people because of who they are. This is a interstate conflict.