I do have to ask the following: I feel very bad about that [spate of incidents, racially-charged incidents, across the country ].

The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead we have emerged stronger and more unified.

I don't feel like I'm running against them, I feel like I'm running to try to show the American people what I can do and what I can accomplish.

When you look at the New York Times and you pick it up in the morning, at the top of the paper there's three stories that are anti-Trump. Some of them baseless, some of them silly. And at the bottom you get something about WikiLeaks. Same thing with The Washington Post. Way out of control.

I'm probably one of the four or five best known Americans in the world.

And if you have a law that isn't working, and you have thousands and thousands and millions of people, then the terrorists hide among them. And we have to have a law that makes sense.

Mexico has many more kidnappings than the United States. The U.S. has very few kidnappings.The reason is, in the United States, we don't pay ransom. We turn it over to the FBI. They catch the person. And then, of course, we used to have the death penalty for it. Now it's life in prison. In Mexico, everybody pays. It's a business.