I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.

I'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men.

A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.

I have been accused of something I'm not guilty of. How do you prove a negative? No matter what we discuss here today, I'm never going to have my name restored. But I've got to try and set the record straight.

Take risks ... be willing to put your mind and your spirit, your time and your energy, your stomach and your emotions on the line. To search for a safe place, to search for an end to a rainbow, is to search for a place that you will hate once you find it. The soul must be nourished along with the bank account and the resume. The best nourishment for any soul is to create your own risks.

A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that's it.

I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility.