I don't read polls to decide what I'm going to do.

I don't accept that. I really don't care - I'm going to be like one of these deniers - I don't care what the polls say.

I was the chairman of the Budget Committee and the lead architect the last time it happened in Washington, and when we did it we had great economic growth, we cut taxes, and we had a big surplus.

How do you prevent people from doing inappropriate things? We can write laws. But at the end of the day, I actually wonder what the board was doing.

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.

These are serious matters, and we can never let up on these sanctions [against Russia].

At the end, the Saudis have agreed to put together a coalition inside of Syria to stabilize that country.