When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training for its next deployment.

I think probably [Donald Trump] is not all that enthusiastic about having the rest of our country see what the real reasons are, because it must be something really important, even terrible, that he's trying to hide.

I've always found credit isn't just something you take - it's something people give you when they see how hard you're working.

Relationships are at the core of any political system and economic system - any family - and I think we drifted away from understanding that in our country. The people-to-people level is critical. It is ironic, though - we can text with anybody in the world, we can have a videoconference with anybody in the world, but [there should be] an even higher premium on showing up and getting to know someone.

The first thing is we got to make sure we try to keep guns out of the wrong hands. And I want comprehensive background checks.

Unfortunately, there's been a lot of very divisive, dark things said about Muslims.

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?