I don't make promises, by and large, that I can't keep.

I was the chairman of the Budget Committee and the lead architect the last time it happened in Washington, and when we did it we had great economic growth, we cut taxes, and we had a big surplus.

People have now been absorbing only that they agree with. You know, part of it is if you're liberal, you consume liberal information. If you're a conservative, you consume conservative information. And there's a certain stridency in both that you know everything, and if somebody doesn't agree with you, you think they don't know what they're talking about, and you become intolerant.

The first thing we better get going is strengthening our economy, because if we don't have a strong economy, we can't pay for all of this. And the world wants us to be able to function from strength, believe it or not.

If the B2 is invisible, just announce you've built 100 of them and don't build them.

Frankly, we should publicly increase them [ anti-Russian sanctions ].

If you look even at Pittsburgh, where I grew up, you've now replaced steel jobs with technology jobs, and they pay better.