I don't look at polls, I pay no attention to them. I pay attention to the public, and the sense of where the public is on certain things, but you have to lead.

The foreign policy, you have to know how to pick and choose. There's no way, if Saddam [Hussein] had not had weapons of mass destruction, I would have gone, because I don't believe that the U.S. should be involved directly in civil wars.

It's an individual morality in values that matters in these companies [like Wells Fargo]. I mean, they ought to clean house. And they ought to figure out how to claw back all this money. That is a given. In terms of additional laws, there are reasonable approaches to this, but I'd have to see what they are. I'm not a federal lawmaker.

Politics doesn't have to be a drag. It can be positive, and it can be fun, and it can be inspiring.

I said that we needed to have people on the ground, troops on the ground in a coalition similar to what we had in the first Gulf War.

To put all of your eggs in one basket is silly. We did that for a long time and I don't think it's very smart.

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