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

A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.

I have no plans to run for president.

I drive Fords, and I've driven American cars all my life, and I want to have a strong American manufacturing sector, especially in automobiles.

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

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