Today we're dealing with metropolitan Shanghai, metropolitan New Delhi or Paris. If we're competing at that level, our diversity, that richness of people coming from so many different backgrounds, is one of our greatest advantages.

Multiple mergers can be challenging because people come from different backgrounds.

America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal.

I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives.

We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.