Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding.

As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate.

Neither this nation nor this party can afford a candidate so captive to the demands of the intolerant right that we end up re-electing a president of the incompetent left.

I think my independence was a big help to getting Judges Roberts and Alito confirmed, and I think that's recognized.

It costs about $27 million to win a seat in the United States Senate, so when you win one, you like to sit down.

If you can get people to laugh, you can get people to listen.

It's been a great privilege to serve the people of Pennsylvania.