I actually thought I had a meeting with congressman [Elijah] Cummings and he was all excited. Then he said, I can't move, it might be bad for me politically. I was all set.

We need a lifetime ban on government officials lobbying for a foreign government.

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

Life is difficult no matter what, but hard work and perseverance make it a lot easier.

NAFTA is the worst trade deal maybe ever signed anywhere, but certainly ever signed in this country.

I've never seen a successful person who wasn't flexible, who didn't have a certain degree of flexibility. You have to show a degree of flexibility.

When you talk about the mental health problems, when people come back from war and combat and they see things that maybe a lot of the folks in this room have seen many times over and you're strong and you can handle it. But a lot of people can't handle it. And they see horror stories. They see events that you couldn't see in a movie, nobody would believe it.