If Putin likes Donald Trump, I consider that an asset, not a liability, because we have a horrible relationship with Russia.

We're going to take on the big media, big business, and big donors that are bleeding our country dry. We're losing our jobs.

The media outlets did not even attempt to confirm the most basic facts [about me] because even a simple investigation would have shown that these were nothing more than false smears.

We will immediately terminate President [Barack] Obama's two illegal executive amnesties in which he defied federal law and the Constitution to give amnesty to approximately five million illegal immigrants, five million.

We've got to make America strong again. And right now, we are not strong. Believe me. We have a depleted military. We have the greatest people in the world in our military. But it is very sadly depleted.

I talk about jobs, I talk about our veterans being mistreated.

I have been involved with this stuff [newspapers, television] all my life, but I'm involved, so I know when you're telling the truth and when you're not.