I think those autoworkers whose industry would have collapsed if the president hadn't intervened are certainly better off.

But obviously, we're looking for all good ideas to help deal with our long-term debt problem. This is something that is going to affect our economy. It affects our kids. And we need to deal with it.

I think that more and more you're going to see people of good will on their side of the aisle say you know what, we got to get off the bus here, this is not headed in the right direction.

This marketplace where people can buy insurance who don't have it today, a competitive marketplace - that's an idea that both sides embrace.

I think that the millions and millions of young Americans, young Americans, who have health care today, who wouldn't have had it if the president hadn't acted are better off.

I'm a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.

Two years before the last election you nor anyone else would have predicted that Barack Obama was going to get elected president of the United States.