Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It's my home.

As a child, the family that I had and the love I had from my two parents allowed me to go ahead and be more aggressive, to search and to take risks knowing that, if I failed, I could always come home to a family of love and support.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That's where I belong.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.