What I saw in Baltimore was distressing and it tells me we need stronger policies in this country.

It costs a hell of a lot more money to put somebody in jail than send them to the University of Virginia.

If we are a free country, we have the right to be free.

Our goal there, in my view, is to work and lean strongly on China to put as much pressure. China is one of the few major countries in the world that has significant support for North Korea, and I think we got to do everything we can to put pressure on China. I worry very much about an isolated, paranoid country with atomic bombs.

One can't predict the future, that maybe our training and their fighting capabilities are improving and we are going to make some progress in destroying ISIS.

I think the war in the Mideast, how we got into it and how we're going to address the current problems, are issues that every American should be concerned about.

If jazz education in our colleges were free to all it would provide thousands of good jobs in the music industry which has been taken over by corrupt millionaires and billionaires.