With all those fledgling countries in Asia, who really want to stand with us but they live under the shadow of China and the smaller shadow of Russia. So I just think Trans-Pacific Partnership is really important both economically and geopolitically.

First and foremost, we need to go and destroy ISIS. And we need to do this with our Arab friends and our friends in Europe.

If you look even at Pittsburgh, where I grew up, you've now replaced steel jobs with technology jobs, and they pay better.

People are beginning to understand my vision and my message because finally people are beginning to allow me to be heard.

Im a believer in bipartisanship.

I think it could get passed in a lame duck? Probably tough. But impossible? No, or I wouldn't be wasting my time. It's going to take some leadership, and it takes a time where leadership is more important than people's political career at times.

I'm a change agent. And what we're beginning to see is a lot of the establish people, one more time, trying to stop me.