People have the absolute right to preach and to think and to say whatever they believe, and at the same time those beliefs can't be used as the basis for denying other people their equal rights and their equal freedom.

Sometimes people need to be told to sit down and shut up.

I know we can fix our problems. When there are people in the room who care more about doing the job they were elected to do than they worry about winning reelection, it is possible to work together, achieve principal compromise, and get results for the people who give us these jobs in the first place.

America under Barack Obama has become a defensive, reactive and weaker country both at home and abroad.

I know the human spirit. I haven't found a wall that can be built that a determined human being can't get over, under or around.

The job of a leader, the job of a governor, the job of a president is to get the people in the room and to bang enough heads together and rub enough arms and cajole enough to have them put the country's and the state's greater interests ahead of their own personal interests.

Never be easy for any president to deal with any Congress. But republicans got to work together. We got to get things done.