The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.

An economic message, an economic platform unites the factory worker in Scranton, the young woman in Los Angeles struggling to pay her college debt and the single mom in Buffalo who's on minimum wage.

America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.

As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence.

Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments - the American people really don't care.

It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.

We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too.