The only way you approach politics and seek elective office is to move forward. For me to look back in anger or with any rancor would be a mistake.

They're all tied together: taxes, Medicare, Social Security, and the debt. We've got to have a setting of priorities, and looking at it - at each of them as disconnected, I think, doesn't properly address these major challenges.

Senator Obama voted against Justice Breyer and Justice Roberts on the grounds that they didn't meet his ideological standards. That's not the way we should judge these nominees. Elections have consequences.

I am the son and grandson of Navy admirals, and I was born into America's service. It wasn't until I was deprived of her company that I fell in love with America.

There's a whole generation that's retiring. It is unconscionable that the average salary of a lawyer is $79,000 a year and the average salary of a teacher is $39,000 a year.

What evidence do we have that states are incapable of further exercising an authority they have exercised successfully for over 200 years?

I would vote for a Muslim if he or she was the best candidate able to lead the country and defend our political values.