"If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future."

"The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom."

"I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home."

"No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground."

"Stand firm when justice demands it, even if you stand entirely alone. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent."

"I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss."

"It is a subtle truth that true knowledge is found not in possessing answers, but in continually asking the right questions."