What we need to do with respect to the Middle East is strong, steady leadership, not wrong and reckless leadership that is all over the map.

I'm a big believer in getting money from where the money is, and the money is in Washington. I learned from running the Olympics that you can get money there to help build economic opportunities. We actually got over $410 million from the federal government; that is a huge increase over anything ever done before. We did that by going after every agency of government. That kind of creativity I want to bring to everything we do (in Massachusetts).

Federal funding for cities who consider themselves sanctuary cities should be reduced.

When it comes to pinning blame, pin the tail on the donkeys.

It's not appropriate to joke about the Ku Klux Klan.

Through pro-growth policies, by abolishing Obamacare and eliminating other Obama-imposed impediments to economic growth, we will get our economy back on track.

I'm not running, I'm not planning on running, and I've got nothing new on that story.