This election [2016] will determine whether America is a free nation or whether we have only the illusion of democracy, but are in fact controlled by a small handful of global special interests rigging the system, and our system is rigged.

Marco's [Rubio] had this hanging over his head for a long time. I've been hearing about his credit card problems for so long, what he did with the Republican Party. You had people that doing the checking, accounting people and other people - I mean, they were devastated that nothing was done with Rubio because of what he did.

I can tell you, some of the people I'm running against don't have a clue as to - we're talking now Republicans - as to what to do about what we are talking about, devaluations. And I do. That's what I do, and I am really good at this stuff.

I was totally against the war in Iraq, you can check Reuters, July of oh-four, I was against it, I said you are going to destabilize.

Russia a very powerful nuclear country and so is America. If we have a good relationship with Russia, believe me, that's a good thing, not a bad thing.

Hillary Clinton's got experience, but it's bad experience. And America can't afford to have another four years of that kind of experience.

There`s plenty of other evidence Trump is in sync with the base, including a major survey released that found that 76 percent of Republicans think Islam is incompatible with the American way of life.