I do think the president's best role is usually as the sort of initiator.

You have got to connect your land use decisions with transportation decisions.

Almost always, executive orders are within an authority and always within the purview of Congress to change if they want to legislatively change it.

I will always be a partner with the president of the United States.

The terrorist threat has decreased in some ways, because Bin Laden is dead.

I'm really, really worried about the Trump team, and I want people on the team who I think are adults who have judgment and won't do anything stupid.

If you just fight against everything willy-nilly, then the message is you're just gonna obstruct on anything. I would rather fight very, very hard on matters of fundamental principle and then have the critique be that Trump is violating the very foundations of America.