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 don't think we need to extend unemployment any further without paying for it, and without making some modifications such as turning it into a loan at some point. It then encourages people to go back to work.

Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren't looking at the facts.

If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.

Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.

I don't have the support inside Washington or even inside my own party.