Frankly, if independents and Democrats want to work with us on conservative ideas, I can do that better at Heritage than as a partisan inside.

I've developed a lot of reform proposals myself and been accused of trying to destroy Social Security, when the whole point was to try to save it. I think most people know that Social Security is bankrupt.

I'd like to see a Republican Party that embraces a lot of the libertarian ideas.

I went through two pretty dark years being fed up with the system and frustrated with my own party after two disastrous elections in 2006 and 2008.

We have this kind of revolving door, we don't have a permanent class of millionaires in America like a lot of other countries.

What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator.

It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.