We have jobs that are in the pipeline, and I deal with all the executives, the big ones and the small ones. I have really gotten to know America.

It does sound like a surprise, but it shouldn't be surprising. The Canada-U.S. trade relationship is still the world's largest. And a relationship that size always generates disputes. And this particular dispute on lumber tariff didn't fall out of a clear spring sky. It's been going on for literally decades. It's rooted in the different way Canada and the United States charges forestry companies for the trees that they cut down and turn into lumber.

I think it's very sad, when Barack Obama lands in Saudi Arabia, and he lands in Cuba, and there aren't high officials to even greet him.

When you have the most votes of anybody that tells you where the party is. I think the party got lost to a certain extent.

Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag -if they do, they must be consequences -perhaps loss of citizenship or year in a jail.

China should go into North Korea. China is totally powerful as it relates to North Korea.

We have politicians that are grossly incompetent. We have leaders that are incompetent and we have negotiators that are incompetent.