What I Would Say About

Focus On Something That Stirs Your Soul, It's Hard To Excel At Anything That You Don't Love.

President Obama Is Perhaps The Smartest Person I've Ever Worked With.

Progress Is The Product Of Human Agency. Things Get Better Because We Make Them Better. Things Go Wrong When We Get Too Comfortable, When We Fail To Take Risks Or Seize Opportunities.

Be Who You Are. If You Spend All Of Your Time Worrying About How People View You, You Will Not Be Either Faithful To Yourself Or Effective In What You're Trying To Do.

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.