I can tell you if you look at the polls, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, they do not think we should increase the debt limit.

American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world.

The Tea Party doesn't like politicians.

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

I have been on shop floors. I have talked to a lot of the companies that create jobs in South Carolina and across the country. And what they want is less regulation.

We must now make clear to Lebanon that it will not benefit from U.S. assistance and support as long as it harbors this brutal terrorist and murder.

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.