There's a ton of stuff we can do to help the economy and help the American people, and the aspirational working class of the American people.

I'm more of an empiricist. I'm focused on right or wrong, as opposed to left or right.

You get growth in the United States, the rest of the world will grow.

Donald Trump has built a super successful business. He's an effective organizer. He's an effective execution-oriented executive. He has the right political personality to get on with people in a way that'll surprise people. He will cut deals in a way that are more favorable for America than what establishment politicians have done.

I'm not a sociologist, I'm not a political scientist, but I'm a fairly intuitive person.

We know through the process of energy independence, our whole geopolitical footprint changes in terms of our national security and how we operate the American military. In addition to that we've got all these forward liabilities on these entitlement programs that, with the right tax and the energy policy, we can pay down and offset some of those liabilities.

What has worked for America is not caring about how the rich are doing, or the politics of envy. What's worked for America is growth. Growth is the reason why I had a very nice middle class upbringing with parents who never went to college.