We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.
I don't want to sound like a whiner here, but if you get beat up all the time, it affects you.
I always think a debt ceiling is a good tool to carry something.
People are genuinely excited about taking the country in another direction.
The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress.
The fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill; to end the bailouts; cut spending; and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won't veto any of these things.
I thought the Pence selection ought to reassure the right-of-center voters that a Trump administration would be a right-of-center administration.
Mitt Romney has spent his entire life finding ways to solve problems.
We need to strengthen and save Social Security for today's workers. If we don't act now, this system, born out of the New Deal, will become a bad deal.
Bolton's exactly what the U.N. needs at this point. The president's right on the mark in picking him.
The president feels not only do we need to change these rogue regimes, but even our friendly allies, who really basically have, sort of, benign dictatorships, need to get with the program if they want to have long-term security and prosperity from terrorism.
I think the important thing to remember here is that we haven't been attacked again at home since September of 2001.
I'm not going to critique every utterance of the president.
The country doesn't need saving.
I only talk to the press if it's to my advantage.
I don't think there is any equivalency between the way the Russians conduct themselves and the way the United States does.
I believe that marriage should be between one man and one woman.
We need to say to everyone on Election Day, 'Those of you who helped make this a good day, you need to go out and help us finish the job.'
Everybody has barriers to overcome, some more than others. I don't want to act like I'm all that unique. America's full of stories like mine. This is a special country with enormous opportunity for those who don't quit.
Almost never does a candidate with high negatives have much of a coattail effect.
Almost without exception, President Obama begins serious policy discussions by explaining why everyone else is wrong. After he assigns straw men to your views, he enthusiastically attempts to knock them down with a theatrically earnest re-litigation of what you've missed about his brilliance.
Putin is a former KGB agent. He's a thug. He was not elected in a way that most people would consider a credible election.
The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law in the early part of his first administration.
I do think that the Constitution and the traditions of this country constrain all of us - those of us in Congress and those of us in the White House - from some of our impulses, shall I say, that we'd like to pursue.
Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.
Our nation has a regrettable history of drawing down our forces and readiness after each conflict, only to find ourselve ill-prepared for the next great struggle.
Do we need to tighten restrictions on people coming into the country? I think there's a good argument for that, but a kind of broad ban is a bad idea, and, of course, many American Muslims are great sources of information as we seek to look for domestic folks who might be engaged in trying to promote terrorist activities.
If the administration wants cooperation, it will have to begin to move in our direction.
My wife came here at age 8 not speaking a word of English and ended up in the president's Cabinet.
Bills should go through committee.