Americans have always had innovators and entrepreneurs who built real companies and create real value, but we should not and we will not respect those who get rich by cheating everybody else.

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.

The president [Barack Obama] decided to leave more troops than he had originally planned in Afghanistan. We have a very cooperative government there, with Ashraf Ghani and his top - his top partner, Abdullah. And they are doing their very best. And the Afghan army is actually fighting. The Afghan army is taking heavy losses defending Afghan territory.

Can't react every time you're insulted. Free people absorb destructive things and refuse to be destroyed

I think we can take back Mosul, and then we can move on into Syria and take back Raqqa.

Instead of gutting consumer protection, we should be expanding it.

I have said publicly no option should be off the table, but I would certainly take nuclear weapons off the table.