The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice.
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.'
The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.
A reporter asked recently, 'What keeps you up at night?' I replied that I generally sleep well, but if I ever do have trouble, I don't have to count sheep. I count all the states I'm glad I'm not the governor of.
I think it's a time to be sad about what's been done to the United States Senate, the greatest deliberative body in the world.
We need to be honest with the public.
So in the House and Senate, we own the budget. So what does that mean? That means that we can pass the spending bill.
After adding trillions to the debt on big-government policies most Americans didn't ask for and which we couldn't afford, Democratic leaders say they need more money, which they intend to take from small business, even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs.
My view is that Trump will not change the Republican Party, America's right-of-center party. If he brings in new followers, that's great, and well worth the effort, but he will not change the Republican Party.
It is time for a leader who will lead.
Americans are too speedy.
We're a country of five-second sound bites and 30-second commercials. Eight years of one person is just too much.
I'm not going to critique every utterance of the president.
Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.
In the last 100 years, three presidents suffered big defeats in Congress in their first term and then won reelection: Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, and the most recent example, Bill Clinton.
The bill that job creators and out-of-work Americans need us to pass is the one that ensures taxes won't go up - one that says Americans and small-business owners won't get hit with more bad news at the end of the year.
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.
The Senate is allowed to work the way it was designed to - meaning a place where nothing is decided without a good dose of deliberation and debate, as well as input from both the majority and minority parties - it arrives at a result that is acceptable to people all along the political spectrum.
Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?
We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.
