As the United States chains itself down with greater debt, China is building relationships across the globe to bolster its trade, its access to natural resources, and its energy consumption. In far too many cases, this means lost opportunities for America and our businesses.

You have no idea whether the hacking even influenced the election.

I can assure all Americans that the best decision is going to be made based on all of the information presented to the president.

I think the president-elect [Donald trump] also supports anything we can do to put an end to these sorts of incidents from taking place in our country.

It is a massive, undeniable failure and a heap of broken promises.

I think Rex Tillerson is an incredible businessman and American patriot and somebody that I think has experience across the globe that very few people have.

If you're not mechanically in the community with people from the community trying to talk about our party, talk about school choice, talk about SBA loans for business owners - if someone's not there, nothing is going to change. You also need to have the tone ... people believe obviously you like them. If people don't think you like them, then they're not going to vote for you.