I used to be a conservative.

It's been painful to see the people that you love be attacked when you know it's not fair or true.

I will seek out the best advice, and I will create a strategy and I will persuade the American people what the role of America should be. I've laid out a policy of rebuilding our military.

There are people who believe in expanding the welfare state across the spectrum of races and ethnicities and creeds.

Banning all Muslims will make it harder for us to do exactly what we need to do, which is to destroy ISIS. We need a strategy. We need to get the lawyers off the back of the warfighters.

I'm a skeptic. I'm not a scientist. I think the science has been politicized.

What we have in Washington is total gridlock.