We call for a new kind of offensive in the Middle East because our current approach has a track record and it's not a good one.

You know, my sense is that transparency is a good thing. It also has to be what - private information should be safeguarded so that individuals are not caught in the cross-fire here. But I think that our government, and people who are working in our government who should have been on the record - Hillary Clinton, remember, deleted half of her email, which is like, what's wrong with this picture?

[ Iraq and Afghanistan] don't get better, they only get worse. Bombing them has only enabled them to grow and multiply.

The Obama administration has embraced the policies of George W. Bush, and then gone much further. Wall Street bailouts went ballistic under Obama - $700 billion under Bush, but $4.5 trillion under Obama, plus another $16 trillion in zero-interest loans for Wall Street.

I think, as a white person, I do not want to speak for a black person.

Voters, I think, in many ways, have begun to really reject the system.

I have always been involved in issue-based politics, not party politics - I was never really originally drawn to party politics.