Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.

between the rhetoric here in Washington and the reality on the ground.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.

I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don't know what those numbers will be, and I don't know how it's going to be framed.

We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don't forget it.