What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.

I dare say there may be some men and women in the Armed Forces who are so decent that they would say: Give the Iraqi people money, we do not want to be paid back. That is the strength of our country.

I think the best thing, if you can't get an air-tight deal with every "I" dotted and every "t" crossed is let the next president have a chance to deal with the Iranians.

I think the worst thing in the world is to have the courts decide who to target in the war on terrorism. And courts are not military commanders.

The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration.

Im the ranking Republican on the foreign aid appropriations subcommittee, so I know Tunisia well.

We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.