I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful.

The reality is, the United States has global interests. Our defense budget is about the same as the defense budgets or military budgets of every other country in the world put together.

Development is a lot cheaper than sending soldiers.

I don't know General Michael Flynn well, but it's hard for me to believe anybody would allow themselves to be blackmailed by the Russians because they didn't tell the full story or didn't tell the truth to the vice president of the United States who works 50 feet down the hall.

I think that Iran with a nuclear weapon is extremely destabilizing. I think it could precipitate a nuclear arms race in the region.

I have always voted for who I believed was the best person.

America's civilian institutions of diplomacy and development have been chronically undermanned and underfunded for far too long.