Obama: When Disaster Strikes, the World Doesn’t Call Beijing or Moscow

"Our doctors, our scientists, our know-how that leads the fight to contain and combat the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. It’s America.

Our colleges, our graduate schools, our unrivaled private sector that attracts so many people to our shores to study and start businesses and tackle some of the most challenging problems in the world.

When alarms go off in the world, whether a disaster that’s natural or man-made, when there’s an idea or invention that can make a difference, this is where things start.

This is who the world calls - America. They don’t call Moscow, they don't call Beijing. They call us. And we welcome that responsibility of leadership because that’s who we are. That's what we expect of ourselves."