I think if there's anything that's important today, it's credibility with the voter, because the voter is tired of being sold a bill of goods.

I'm not a big guy that believes that you gain energy from demonizing other people. I think you gain energy from giving people hope.

Republicans and Democrats spend so much time fighting and then they're all aghast, you know, and so it's just not the way we ought to be. The coarseness is not acceptable.

Let me just suggest to everybody, and I hear - last February [2015], I said we needed to have people on the ground in a coalition with Europe and our allies. This is not going to get done just by working with the Sunnis. And it is not going to get done if we just embed a few people.

I'm an old-fashioned person and I happen to believe in traditional marriage.

If I were president, I would want to spend a lot of time going to the legislatures and telling them about best practices, whether it's about fighting poverty, whether it's about educating kids. The states are the laboratories where we can see what works. And I think presidents can have a much better relationship with legislatures.

I do not support a civil war. I don't want to be policeman of the world. But we can't back off of this.