71 percent of the American people think that the federal government should take no more than 20 percent of anybody's paycheck no matter how much they make.

It's a mandate for you to do in office what you said you would do on the campaign trail.

I believe in the principles of the Republican Party.

But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.

[T]he economy remains the top issue for the electorate.

'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.

In chaos, there is opportunity.