If there's no other alternative, I support civilian trials for terrorists.

I lowered taxes in New York. I reduced the size of government in New York. I took a $2.4 billion deficit and turned it into a $3.2 billion surplus. And I reduced taxes over 23 times or 23 times.

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

I've campaigned many, many times together with Senator McCain. He's campaigned for me; I've campaigned for him, good friend.

Immigrants to America help us with the work they do. They challenge us with new ideas, and they give us perspective. This is still the nation that more people around the world want to come to than any place else. That has to tell us something about ourselves. If around the world this is the place people want to come to so much, maybe there's more here than many of us realize-and that many of us can take advantage of.

Life needs penalties and rewards for people. You can't control people with only penalties. You have to think how to create rewards.

Six percent, 5 percent of our GDP for him [Vladimir Putin] to match us, he has to spend 25 percent of his GDP and it will bankrupt his country.