I'm an internationalist. I want to help others, not just kill terrorists.

I don't think we're doing an adequate vetting process of those who are coming to our country.

The question's whether or not there's an American interest in the Civil War [in Syria]. The question is whether or not a military strike on [Bashar] Assad will cause him to be encouraged to use more weapons or discouraged. It's easy enough to say - and the president [Barack Obama] says though this will teach him a lesson - but his military strike is intended not to target him individually, not to bring about regime change.

I don't know about [Rex] Tillerson, but I do know that John Bolton doesn't get it. He still believes in regime change. He's still a big cheerleader for the Iraq war. He's promoted a nuclear attack by Israel on Iran. He wants to do regime change in Iran. So, I think John Bolton is so far out of it and has such a naive understanding of the world. If he were to be the assistant or the undersecretary for Tillerson, I'm an out automatic no on Bolton.

You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.

Secretary [John] Kerry has called Civil War [in Syria] an unbelievably small war that we're going to get involved with.

We must protect ourselves from jihadis without losing ourselves.