Why do three-quarters of NATO [countries] get away with not paying anything? They have to pay their bills.

I'm standing up for the U.S. But it's hard when Russians don't have any respect for the current leadership.

I think we have such a political cesspool in America right now.

I saw the relation with Russia as necessary to the U.S., for the interests of the U.S. We worked very closely with them on the Sochi Olympics. We were working closely with them on the Iranian nuclear deal.

The Democratic Party is no longer the Democratic Party.

I like serving America.

I know Donald Trump as a very adaptive person. In my nearly three and a half decades of being in the military, I've had maybe one, maybe two guys that I've worked for that were that adaptive in combat. He adapts to the great challenges, with his own sort of street smarts and his instincts.