Im a believer in bipartisanship.

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

I served on the Armed Services Committee for 18 years and we must lead, or the job won't get done, unfortunately, for our country.

Libya was a terrible mistake. You know, frankly, that's something that people ought to be thinking about in regard to Hillary [Clinton]. You know, they talk about Benghazi, which is very legitimate. Of course it is. But we should never have deposed [Muamar] Gaddafi. That was a terrible mistake.

For heaven's sake, this is 2015. I've run the largest technology company in the world. Let me assure you we know how to build an employer verification system that would work. We can solve this. We just need to do it.

I mean, it would be very easy to make an inflammatory statement on what we ought to do on cyber. I don't think that that's productive. But to allow the Russian activity to go unresponded to is not acceptable.

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