We've got to make sure our younger workers understand that as life expectancy increases, the retirement date for benefits increases also.

When we leave money in the hands of taxpayers, they buy things, they pay taxes, they grow government.

I am who I am. I'm going to speak my mind.

I don't believe in deadlines, I don't believe in telling the enemy when we're going to withdraw.

If 'extreme' means that I am unwilling to go to Washington, D.C., and do what President Obama tells me, then so be it. But I am certainly not going to Washington, D.C. to represent the interests of D.C. I'm going there to represent Colorado values.

What I have said is that I think the federal government and we as a society have come too far in trying to separate good organizations that perform good functions for people just based on the fact one has a religious association and one doesn't.

I think we need to make sure that we are putting Social Security on a sustainable path. It's absolutely something that the federal government is going to be involved in, in the future.