You might not be ready for diplomacy with Beijing if you can't visit the Olympics without insulting our closest ally.

If it is orderly and lawful, immigration is good for our economy.

We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.

If you can look back and say, "The economy's better. Our security's better. The environment's better. Our kids' education is better," if you can say that you've made things better, then considering all the challenges out there, you should feel good. But I'm the first to acknowledge that I did not crack the code in terms of reducing this partisan fever.

Rather than me sort of characterize the appropriateness or inappropriateness of what Donald Trump is doing at the moment, I think what we have to see is how will the President-elect operate, and how will his team operate, when they've been fully briefed on all these issues, they have their hands on all the levers of government, and they've got to start making decisions.

You now have the potential of 200 people deciding who ends up being elected president every single time.

Race remains a potent and often divisive force in our society.