If we do our job right, the Supreme Court won't be made up of men and women who are on the side of the little guy or the big guy; rather, the Supreme Court will be made up of men and women who are on the side of the law and the Constitution.

If I move one way, I lose a couple votes. If I move another way, I lose a couple votes.

It wouldn't do me much good to back somebody that won in Iowa if they can't carry on the campaign elsewhere.

Supreme Court nominees should know that this exercise of judicial restraint is the key ingredient of being good judge, as the Constitution constrains judges every bit as much as it constrains we legislators, executives and citizens in their actions.

We should not have a government program that determines if you're going to pull the plug on grandma.

There is a lot of waste in government-run programs generally, and a lot of waste and fraud and misuse of money in Medicare and Medicaid that can be saved.

If I can't negotiate something that gets more than four Republicans, I'm not a very good representative of my party.