Well, thank God for a media that will ask questions.

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.

Ronald Reagan would have a hard time getting elected as a Republican today.

I would love to end the nuclear ambition of the Iranians without firing a shot, but you have to know who you're talking to and what they actually want, this is North Korea in the making.

I think comprehensive immigration reform while securing your border and dealing rationale with 11 million is the only way we're going to solve this problem.

I don't see any coronation coming my way

Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require.