President [Vladimir] Putin called me up nicely to congratulate me on the winning of the election and called me up completely nicely to congratulate me on the inauguration, which was terrific, but so did many other leaders, almost all other leaders from almost all other countries.

I never met Putin, I don't know who Putin is. He said one nice thing about me. He said I'm a genius. I said thank you very much to the newspaper and that was the end of it. I never met Putin.

I would not have had our troops in Iraq.

We have the most incompetently worked trade deals ever negotiated probably in the history of the world, and that starts with NAFTA. And now they want to go TPP, one of the great disasters.

You know, the people of Crimea, from what I've heard, would rather be with Russia than where they were.

If you don't have passion, you have no energy, and if you don't have energy, you have nothing.

We should have never let ISIS happen in the first place. And right now, they're in 32 countries.