Sometimes people just don't understand the way that I work in politics.

We're all hypocrites. We all say one thing and do another. But why don't we try to do what we say more than what we don't?

We have to go massively, like we did in the first Gulf War where we destroyed Saddam's ability to take Kuwait. We need to have a coalition that will stand for nothing less than the total destruction of ISIS and we have to be the leader.

I don't want to get into an argument with somebody about how they ought to vote.

I was discouraged when I read that [Senate Minority Leader Mitch] McConnell said that Trans-Pacific Partnership was dead, but then I was told he turned around and said, "No, it's not."

I have never worshipped at the altar of free trade, but I've always been an advocate of free trade.

You know, whatever it takes. It's very important obviously from an economic point of view because of the need for innovation, for progress, to improve the standard of living of people. But I also think it's a critical issue in geopolitics too.