practical people who knew life was too hard to judge each other’s choices, too messy to live according to abstract ideals

My central focus is what are we doing to protect the American people and the American homeland? Afghanistan and Pakistan are critical elements in that process.

People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.

I think people feel that we're in a morass. They don't get a sense that there's movement, that there's serious progress.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.