The 11 million, I think, are never going home, don't need to be sent home, and I would incorporate them into our society by giving them work visas and making them taxpayers.

I think there's a racial outcome to a lot of what goes in America, but I don't think race is always the reason.

Unless you really stand for something, people aren't motivated to go out and vote for you.

The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.

I would set aside all these budget cuts that are going to devastate the F.B.I., the C.I.A., and the N.S.A. Sequestration, cuts, are not only gutting the military, they're gutting the F.B.I. So if I were president, I would set these cuts aside. I would reinstate the N.S.A. program as robust as possible within the constitutional limits.

To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.

I think [Donald Trump] has to do everything he can to set up a firewall between him and his businesses. But I think it's unrealistic for people to be saying, oh, he should just sell all of his businesses.