If I were running to be somebody, there are a lot of easier sombodies to be. After all, running against the incumbent governor of your own party in your home state is not the next logical step in a political life.

We focus so much on how immigrants can change America that we forget that America has always changed immigrants even more.

We've learned more from the newspapers sometimes than we do from our open hearings, for sure.

My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.

We can't win - if we nominate someone - if we nominate someone that half of the Republican Party hates, we're going to be fighting against each other all the way to November [of 2016]. We will never win that way.

When was the last time you heard news accounts of a boatload of American refugees arrive on the shores of another country?

When I'm president of the United States, we're going to have a VA that cares more about our veterans than about the bureaucrats who work at the VA.