Politics can not only be drudgery and Captain Queeg with the balls in his hands.

We're now going to develop the standards on transparency, data collection for police, but the whole goal is to fully integrate the police into the community because everybody has the same goals.

I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it's a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously they should be allowed to practice that and no government should interfere with them.

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 don't make promises, by and large, that I can't keep.

I try to keep what I say. And I - I'm not deviated from this position at all.

I think to a degree this happens when they [russians] spot a softness in us, which I think for a while they did.