I think I could have worked for the Clinton administration.

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.’

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.

The president deserves someone who can block for his policies.

I've always been a strong supporter of environmental protection and initiatives in that area. But I'm willing to set priorities. If we have to make reductions in one place, we'll have to-in order to increase another place, I'm willing to do that.

I have never been opposed to earmarks.

Most senators are just going to work and trying to do a job.