One of my first directives, after taking office, will be asking the Joint Chiefs of Staff and all relevant federal departments to conduct a thorough review of United States cyber defenses and identify all vulnerabilities - and we have to do that immediately - including to our power grid, our communications system, and all vital infrastructure.

I am here [in Washington] following through on what I pledged to do. That's all I'm doing.

I don't mind bad stories when it's true, but we have an administration where the Democrats are making it very difficult. I think we're setting a record or close to a record in the time of approval of a cabinet. The numbers are crazy when I'm looking.

When oil goes over $40 a barrel it's almost impossible for America to do well.

We're going to have people come into our country, but they're going to come in legally, legally.

We have the worst revival of an economy since the Great Depression. And believe me: We're in a bubble right now.

Just as we won the Cold War in part by exposing the evils of communism and the virtues of free markets, so, too, must we take on the ideology of radical Islam.