I reserve the right, as president of the United States to meet with anybody at a time and place of my choosing if I think it's going to keep America safe.

I don't regret at all saying that if I saw Bashar al-Assad using chemical weapons on his people that that would change my assessments in terms of what we were or were not willing to do in Syria.

We have an epidemic of fatherlessness here, and that's what I agree with the president [Barack Obama] on, and we should be doing more to promote and protect marriage as between a man and a women for the needs of our children.

Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.

I look at some of the kids that I interact with, and they were born with so many disadvantages. And you could start off in your first interaction with them saying, "Unless they get a lot of compensatory help, they're not going to be able to compete; they're just so far behind, and they're wounded and they're hurt."

The Iranian people are getting restive because of the challenges that sanctions have posed to their economy.

I think it's fair to say that my temperament is steady - and on the buoyant side.