Legislation is the art of compromise.

I am convinced that I do not want to give up more power to the White House, whether it's George Bush or Barack Obama. And I'm going to fight as hard as I can against President Obama on these earmarks and my Republican colleagues who hate to vote for them, but love to get them.

The Iraq war can only be won diplomatically, politically and economically, and the president needs to come to that realization.

Republicans cannot be trusted to end the culture of corruption.

He [Barack Obama] was light-skinned with no Negro dialect.

Now that our troops are mired in a dangerous effort to defeat the insurgency and are also trying to help rebuild the country, Americans of all political persuasions simply want the United States to succeed and our troops to be as safe as possible.

They’re nothing more than domestic terrorists.