We're going take a common-sense, step-by-step approach that puts in place the kind of policies that will make our- our health insurance system more what I call patient-centered and lower cost.

The bill that was about jobs, jobs, jobs has turned into a bill that's about spending, spending, spending.

During the 1990s, world leaders looked at the mounting threat of terrorism, looked up, looked away, and hoped the problem would go away.

Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.

I talked to a lot of employers who just are, are fearful of what's coming next out of Washington. It's all the spending, it's all the debt. It's their national energy tax, they want to call it cap and trade - more mandates, higher costs, more taxes. Their healthcare bill - more mandates, higher costs, higher taxes.

Every cow in the world, you know, when they do what they do, you've got more carbon dioxide.

I'll commit suicide before I vote on a clean minimum-wage bill.