I wasn't a politician. I had no - no - even thought of being a politician. So, nobody even talked to me about the war. Nobody said, should we do the war, should we not? It's not like now, where every day you're being asked questions about things.

I will proudly promote our system of government and our way of life as the best in the world, just like we did in our campaign against communism during the Cold War.

Leaders, true leaders, take responsibility for the success of the team and understand that they must also take responsibility for the failure.

I used to get great press. I get the worst press. I get such dishonest reporting with the media. I've never had anything like it before. It happened during the primaries, and I said, you know, when I won, I said, "Well the one thing good is now I'll get good press." And it got worse. So that was one thing that a little bit of a surprise to me. I thought the press would become better, and it actually, in my opinion, got more nasty.

I have a running war with the media. And they sort of made it sound like I had a feud with the intelligence community.

Don't compromise your principles.

America has a lot of problems, believe me. I know what the problems are even better than you do. They're deep problems. They're serious problems. We don't need more.