Americans know that a strong alliance of free, sovereign and independent nations is the best defense for our freedoms and for our interests. That is why my administration has demanded that all members of NATO finally meet their full and fair financial obligation. As a result of this insistence, billions of dollars more have begun to pour into NATO. In fact, people are shocked. But billions and billions of dollars more coming in from countries that, in my opinion, would not have been paying so quickly.

I have a message for all of you. The crime and violence that today afflicts America will soon - and I mean very soon - come to an end.

I was an insurgent. I was, you know, an outsider. And I'm not sure that I'm not better being an outsider.

[People] are looking at the politicians as being all talk, no action. They talk the big game, then they go to Washington, they look at the magnificent hallowed halls as you would say, or the beautiful vaulted ceilings and they say, "darling, I've arrived," to their loved one or their wife. They say "darling, I've arrived" and all of a sudden they become nothing.

We're going to do a lot of work on the inner cities, I have great people lined up to help.

In Chicago, they've had thousands of shootings, thousands since January 1st [2016]. Is this a war-torn country? What are we doing? And we have to stop the violence.

And ICE and Border Patrol officers will be allowed to do their jobs the way their jobs are supposed to be done.