Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.

You can't make a representation and then claim you didn't make it. You know, it just shouldn't work that way.

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.’

If we don't get this economy going, the numbers that represent this stimulus package are going to be small compared to the loss of revenue to the federal government for our economy.

I think, like everybody else in New Hampshire, when I pull up to fill up my car and I pay $50, I get upset. And I'm wondering if these prices are legitimate.

We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there.

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