The reason why Donald Trump does have a very strong base of popularity is he's an authentic person and not necessarily a politician.

I'm a risk manager, but I'm also a risk taker.

I would prefer to let the president make the decisions that the president needs to make.

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

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.

I think the president has a very good idea of who the leakers are inside the White House. The president has a very good idea of the people that are undermining his agenda that are serving their own interests.

You lower the [tax] rate, you will motivate and incentivize more people to put more capital at risk to create more jobs.