We think about our country and the big issues that we face in this country; creating jobs, making sure people can keep their jobs, the need for rising wages, whether our children when they graduate from college can find a job, protecting the homeland, destroying ISIS, rebuilding defense. These are all the things that we need to focus on but we'll never get there if we're divided. We'll never get there if republicans and democrats just fight with one another.

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

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

I think the process of being hopeful, being really opportunity oriented, not just in rhetoric but in action, showing that no one get's left behind, not just by talking about it but by doing it, I think is really a key [to political success].

In faith, I'm a believer in the do's - you know, love your neighbor, love your enemy. I don't spend a lot of time thinking on the don'ts 'cause I can't get the do's right.

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

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