If you look at the Middle East, it's a blow up, it's a total disaster. We have an incompetent president [Barack Obama].

The only thing that's doing well in America is the stock market.

As far as being a Republican is concerned, I come from a place, New York City, which is virtually, I mean, it is almost exclusively Democrat. And I have really started to see some of the negatives - as an example, and I have a lot of liking for this man, but the last number of months of his brother's administration were a catastrophe. And unfortunately, those few months gave us President Obama. And you can't be happy about that.

It's been a company [Exxon] that's been unbelievably managed and to me, a great advantage is Rex Tillerson knows many of the players and he knows them well.

I am a person who has great respect for people, for my family, for the people of this country.

We've imposed a hiring freeze on non-essential federal workers. We've imposed a temporary moratorium on new federal regulations.

Now, if your boss is a sadist, then you have a big problem. In that case, fire your boss and get a new job.