America is a center right government, center right people. They want government but they don't want it to be excessive. They want it to be affordable. And most importantly what Americans want is to pass on to their next generation their children a country that's better, stronger and more vibrant and more prosperous.

The president deserves someone who can block for his policies.

Derivatives are a huge, complex issue.

This nation is on a course where if we don't do something about it, get federal situation, the fiscal policy [under control], we're Greece. We're a banana republic. Our status as a nation is threatened by what we’ve got coming at us in the area of deficit and debt. And it’s only a few more years, at the most, that we have to work with here before the market says, ‘Sorry, your currency is something we can not continue to defend.’

I don't think the American people want unilateral government control over the entire health-care system.

Social Security was always supposed to be basically, in theory, an insurance program where you pay in and then you get out.

I think I could have worked for the Clinton administration.