ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.

Clearly, Iran has influence in Iraq. Iraq has a majority Shi'a population, they have relationships to Iran. Some are natural.

99.9% of plumbers make less than a quarter million dollars a year, and I'm going to give Joe a break whether he wants it or not.

If it's on Facebook, it all looks the same.

There is nothing wrong with our country, there is something wrong with our politics...When this country is operating off a common ground, nobody can stop us. But when we're divided, then we end up having a whole lot of self-inflicted problems.

It could be another election where the alignments between Republicans and Democrats are different than they were this time and who a foreign country prefers.

I'll turn the page on a growing empire of classified information. We'll protect sources and methods, but we won't use sources and methods to hide the truth.