My mother said, if you don't have the cash, don't buy it. And on that, my mother was right.

People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they're right. The system is rigged.

You know, if you’re caught with an ounce of cocaine, the chances are good you’re going to go to jail. If it happens repeatedly, you may go to jail for the rest of your life. But evidently, if you launder nearly a billion dollars for drug cartels and violate our international sanctions, your company pays a fine and you go home and sleep in your own bed at night, every single individual associated with this. I think that’s fundamentally wrong.

The people on Wall Street broke this country, and they did it one lousy mortgage at a time. It happened more than three years ago, and there has been no real accountability, and there has been no real effort to fix it.

Our veterans deserve the very best, and that means ensuring that America's veterans receive high-quality services and cares when they come back home.

It is critical that the American people, and not just their financial institutions, be represented at the negotiating table.

Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea, God Bless, keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and paid forward for the next kid who comes along.