I had the chance to be governor for eight years and I took a year to transition out and a year to transition in, so that's a decade of my life where I pursued my own ambitions and I thought it was time to rearrange my life to focus on other things.

By blaming others, we fail to find the real solutions to our problems and we do not carry out our own responsibilities.

There is no question we need higher academic standards and at the local level the rigor of the Common Core state standards must be the new minimum in classrooms.

We need to have capabilities second to none. We need to create a situation where Chinies know that there will be adverse impacts if they continue to do what they're doing.

I used to be a conservative.

I'm not an expert on the ways of Washington [but] it makes no sense to me that we're not funding control of our border.

The Kurds are the greatest fighting force and our strongest allies. They're Muslim.