Mike Pompeo: “This is about politics, right? That is why Mr. Podesta is over at EPA working on this.”

I suspect that [Columbia's] outreach was intentional in the sense that they were seeking to bring onto campus...someone with a view that is very different than most of the faculty on their staff.

I am thrilled to join the Institute at Columbia University and to provide a unique voice defending traditional American values and the Founders' vision for our great nation, alongside the necessity to support our allies across the world.

In short, we put America first every single day.

Very shrewd, very capable. I have enormous respect for him. I've been criticized for saying that. I have enormous respect for him. I consider him an elegantly sophisticated counterpart.