They [Chinese] have very smart, experienced people. I don't want to paint them all with the same brush. There was a little bit of a feeling that the stock market, which went from something like $4 trillion in valuation to $10 trillion, that the Chinese wanted that.

Japan, Europe, [and] America probably [are] better than last year [2015], not China.

We've had fairly consistent financial results.

We did not anticipate the political fallout from it. We definitely didn't need it and we paid it back the first day we were allowed to.

I think the politics have gotten better in the United States, which makes it easier to pass legislation, budgets and treaties.

It's offensive to me to be called a cost cutter.

Men, age 25 to 55, the labor-force participation rate is down 10%. That's unbelievable. There are 35,000 dying of opioids every year. Seventy percent of kids age 17 to 24 can't get into the US military because of health or education. Obesity, diabetes, reading and writing. Is that the society we wanted? No. We should be working on these things, acknowledge the flaws we have, and come up with solutions. Not Democrat. Not Republican. Not knee-jerk.