My contract with the American voter begins with a plan to end government corruption and to take our country back from the special interests. I want the entire corrupt Washington establishment to hear and heed the words. We're going to drain the swamp of corruption in Washington, D.C.

Only five NATO countries, including the United States, are currently meeting their minimum requirement to spend 2% of GDP on defense.

This is the warfare of the future. America's dominance in this arena [cybersecurity] must be unquestioned.

You want to know the truth? I was going to say something extremely rough to Hillary [Clinton], to her family, and I said to myself, "I can't do it. I just can't do it. It's inappropriate. It's not nice."

I never knew as bad as it would be. I never knew it would be this vile, that it would be this bad, that it would be this vicious [with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama].

There are five different ways you can do it. You can do it through not giving them the subsidy that we pay them. You know, we pay Mexico a subsidy. I don't know if you know. But the whole thing is ridiculous. We're paying everybody subsidy. We actually have a small portion of China where they get a subsidy from us because they haven't ended it for years.

I think [Vladimir] Putin probably assumes he can't make a deal with me anymore because politically it would be unpopular for a politician to be making a deal.