I served on the budget committee in the Senate, and I remember as vividly as if it were yesterday when we had a hearing in which Alan Greenspan came and justified increasing spending and cutting taxes, saying that we didn't really need to pay down the debt - outrageous in my view.

Increasingly, we are seeing cyber attacks coming from states, organs of states. The most recent and troubling of these has been Russia.

Fail to plan, plan to fail.

From my perspective it matters what we do, not what we say. It mattered that we got Bin Laden, not the name we called him.

Let's defend overtime and go after wage theft.

It is very clear that the people in Afghanistan do not want the Taliban back.

I really believe being a good listener is important for anybody, and particularly for somebody who wants to be a leader.