The role of money in politics is terrible, particularly when you're running for president. You get a handful of billionaires who can basically buy the White House.

If somebody wants to sit down with me for an hour and interview me and ask me any question about my record, my policies, my foreign policy experience, my domestic policy experience, I'm willing to do that.

I've been frankly very surprised at the intensity of our differences [with Russia]. I mean, between what appears to be hacking of our political system to the aggressive use of nukes on the borders, to these atrocities in Syria and their warnings. I've been very, very surprised at the intensity of all this.

Frankly, we should publicly increase them [ anti-Russian sanctions ].

When there is cheating, the cheating needs to be called.

Everybody has a right to their God-given purpose.

To allow the Russian activity to go unresponded to is not acceptable.