I kind of know what my job is, it's to develop a message that's hopeful and optimistic about the future of the country, to develop ideas that will give people a sense that they can lift up, and to tell them about my leadership skills to make it so.

I'm enjoying turning down all requests for interviews. I don't miss being in politics.

We need to destroy ISIS in the caliphate. That's - that should be our objective. The refugee issue will be solved if we destroy ISIS there, which means we need to have a no-fly zone, safe zones there for refugees and to build a military force.

I have never wavered from my intention to advance the cause of diversity in new and more effective ways.

I am my own man. I governed as a conservative, and I govern effectively.

The progressive and liberal mindset believes that to every problem there is a Washington, D.C., solution.

The idea that somehow we're better off today than the day that Barack Obama was inaugurated president of the United States is totally an alternative universe. The simple fact is that the world has been torn asunder.