Freedom solutions - cross-state insurers; health cooperatives.

Dependency encourages social problems.

I don't need to be asking for money for local museums and other projects just to make me look good back home.

I have no plans to run for president.

As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable.

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.

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