I can't speculate on what did or did not happen. I only know what I said and what I intended to convey.

[Donald Trump] suggestions that the United States should leave the Pacific and let Japan, South Korea, or whoever else wants to develop nuclear weapons. These are incredibly dangerous ideas that need to be confronted.

I believe in evidence-based decision making. I want to know what the facts are.

I am someone who hopes for the best and prepares for the worst.

I think whoever runs next time has to have a very clear idea of where he or she wants to take America and has to run on those ideas, because the election cannot be about personalities, participants sniping, all of the irrelevant stuff the day after the election sort of dissipates, and you wake up and say, okay, now what am I going to do?

You know, Barack Obama is a man of great dignity. And I could tell how much it bothered him and annoyed him that this [birther lie] was being touted and used against him.

My mother implanted in me as a young girl...you can either be an actor in your own life, or a reactor in somebody else's.