If you look at sort of how politics has divided itself here in this country, the big divide right now is between urban areas, which have become increasingly Democratic, and rural or exurban areas that feel as if they're being ignored.

One of the things I advised Donald Trump to do was to make sure that, before he commits to certain courses of action, he has really dug in and thought through how various issues play themselves out.

ISIS is not an organization that can destroy the United States. This is not a huge industrial power that can pose great risks to us, institutionally or in a systematic way. But they can hurt us. And they can hurt our people and our families.

What is true in the South is true for America.

I'm named Barack Hussein Obama. I'm African-­American.

But we reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future.

I invigorated the grassroots in the Republican Party as well as the Democratic Party.