As long as the White House is deadly serious, which they tell me they are, I'll help them anyway I can.

First and foremost, we need to go and destroy ISIS. And we need to do this with our Arab friends and our friends in Europe.

I've always been a reformer all the time I served in public office, and remain a reformer in Ohio, but I also know how to get things done. And I think it's important that, while we acknowledge the anxieties that Americans have, I think it's also important we realize at the end of the day, we need to have somebody who knows how to land a plane, and I've landed quite a few planes.

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.

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].

Frankly, we are republicans and they're democrats but before all of that, we're Americans. And I believe we need to unify in so many ways to rebuild our country, to strengthen our country, to rebuild our defense, and for America to secure it's place it world; for us, for our children, and for the next generation.

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.