Remember, at the end of the day [election] campaigns are always about the candidates.

Be careful about anybody who's running for president who's going to tell you that they're going to build a wall across the entire southern border. It's not going to happen. It is the wrong message to send. And it's not going to be effective.

Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it's awful policy.

You know, at some point there has to be parity. There has to be parity between what is happening in the real world, and what is happening in the public sector world.

The president needs to be a force that is trusted in the world.

I am not going to make any commitments to the teachers union to do anything until they do something that's other than in their own self-interest. And everything they have done so far is in their self-interests, and that's it.

China need to be fought back on. And what we need to do is go at the things that they are most sensitive and most embarrassing to them; that they're hiding; get that information and put it out in public. Let the Chinese people start to digest how corrupt the Chinese government is; how they steal from the Chinese people; and how they're enriching oligarchs all throughout China.