I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.

When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold on to your wallets. We know Mitt Romney never met a tax haven he didn't like. But his new favorite tax haven is actually not the Cayman Islands - its Paul Ryan's budget.

Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.

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

When a nominee doesn't get 60 votes, you shouldn't change the rules, you should change the nominee.

We can't have a Twitter president. This is serious stuff, this governing.

I'm not sure we will have every single Democrat ... but we want a large number of Republicans to be able to vote for this bill because we think that will encourage the House not only to move forward but to pass a bill.