The President should be focused on making the lives of Americans better. It's what he promised. It's what the country needs.

We know through the process of energy independence, our whole geopolitical footprint changes in terms of our national security and how we operate the American military. In addition to that we've got all these forward liabilities on these entitlement programs that, with the right tax and the energy policy, we can pay down and offset some of those liabilities.

As you know from the Italian expression, the fish stinks from the head down. What I can tell you two fish that don't stink, okay, and that's me and the President.

You know why I got involved in politics? The government is now a majority partner in my life. I am now a minority partner in my own life.

You're never gonna find the perfect politician.

I do think that there is pressure in various constituencies to reject the president.

You don't want the United States to become South America, where you have a super collection of rich people at the tippy-top of society, they are surrounded by barbed wire living in McMansions with security guards, and the rest of the society is suffering, and you've got a broken educational system and a broken government.