If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.

We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission!

I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.

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

I think, the left makes a mistake. If you look particularly at the state levels, violent repeat criminals are not punished enough. The average murderer is sentenced to 17 1/2 years but serves six. The average rapist is sentenced to 10 years but serves about three and a half. The average mugger is sentenced to five years and serves little more than one.

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

I feel very strongly that we need to change the way we do trade because it has been one of the major factors that lead to decline of middle class incomes.