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

Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.

People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.

[Barack] Obama administration, the [George W.]Bush administration have done nothing. And as China has manipulated its currency, we`ve lost trillions of dollars of wealth and millions of good-paying jobs.

I'm totally opposed to vouchers. I will fight them tooth and nail.

When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold on to your wallets.

I am deeply skeptical of trade deals in general.But the only way they can get a number of Democrats is by doing a strong real currency bill that goes after the worst of the trading partners, the one that`s stealing our high-end jobs.