Some people think [Ted] Cruz is just as bad of an electoral nightmare down the ballot as [Donald] Trump.

I think what speaks loudest and what speaks to your point is the blood that's spilling from Australia, to now California. I mean, how much blood has to be spilled until we recognize inside of a Muslim community that with do have an ideological problem?

There are many other [then ISIS] terrorist organizations. And their primary victims are Muslims. I think that's very important.

Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

We don't want to bury our heads in the sand about serious issues.

We don't know yet but so far the three candidates that have dealt with [Donald] Trump most adeptly are [Ted] Cruz, [Chris] Christie, and [Marco] Rubio. But they've all avoided him in one form or another.