We owe our troops the opportunity to serve in the best-planned, best-equipped, and best-led military force in the world, and we owe them the peace of mind that comes from knowing that they and their families will be taken care of if they sacrifice life, limb or the ability to sleep without war's nightmares. We owe them not just thanks and best wishes, but action, and action in our nation's capital.

Being lectured by the president on fiscal responsibility is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in this country.

Our purpose now is to reclaim democracy itself. We are here to affirm that when Americans stand up and speak their minds and say America can do better, that is not a challenge to patriotism; it is the heart and soul of patriotism.

I am a veteran, I fought in a war. I've been a prosecutor. I've sent people to jail for the rest of their life.

You can't play sports without losing sometimes and, in losing, you learn something about grace and how to act under pressure.

America is the most powerful economy in the world. We're an $18-trillion-dollar economy.

It's hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.