There's a real danger when people get distracted by peripheral issues. They get distracted by democracy building. They get distracted about military conflicts. We need to focus on defeating jihadism.

Washington D.C. politics is like Hollywood for ugly people.

My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.

I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father. That was not a blanket commitment that if you go and slander and attack Heidi that I'm going to nonetheless come like a servile puppy dog and say thank you very much for maligning my wife and maligning my father.

Far too many young people are living in their parents' basements, and I think it is important for people to have hope and a vision things can be different.

The more liked you are in Washington, the less liked you are in the rest of America, and vice versa.

Ronald Reagan reignited the American economy, rebuilt the Military, bankrupted the Soviet Union and defeated Soviet Communism. I will do the same thing.