If we're going to have standards in schools, let's be honest and have standards.

Every so often you might have an outburst in the gallery. That's one of the most exciting things that happen because then you can say, 'Unless there's order we will call the Sergeant at Arms.' And that sounds really scary.

You cannot compare any leaders in America to what Vladimir Putin has done. This is a man and a regime that has taken down a passenger plane in Ukraine, killing hundreds of people.

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.

When it's for the good of your state, you put partisan differences aside.

I think this is an exciting time where we can actually get a compromise between Democrats and Republicans, and we have to for this country. Now, I think we need not only to balance the budget in the future but we also need balance in the budget.

There are still people that have been held for human rights that shouldn't be held for just speaking their mind.