[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.

When I started to get involved in the crime issue, people said, "it's a local issue." I said, "No, there are lots of ways the federal government can help." And the best way the federal government can help, and did in the Crime Bill, is to find programs that work around the country and help them spread.

Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.

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

Certainly any president - Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative - should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.

All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.

When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.