I think it's fair to point out that there is bias in the media on both sides, both right and left. And that it's very hard to find objective news because we have gotten, particularly as you watch cable news, it's so dominated by opinion.

I really think that discrimination and racism is a horrible thing. And I don't want any form of it in our government, in our public sphere.

I do believe people ought to be left alone. I don't care who you are or what you do at home or who your friends are or where you hang out, what kind of music you listen to, what you do in your home is your own business. That's always been who I am. I am a leave me alone kind of guy.

The more we can have peaceful trade both with Russia, with China, and with others, you know, there's a self interest in this for everyone.

I think it's a conundrum. If we have no laws on this, people take it to one extension further, does it have to be humans, you know?

In a free society we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we're civilized people we publicly criticize that and don't belong to those groups or associate with those people.

My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.