I came into office to do what was correct, not to see what was politically expedient to get re-elected.

In doing what I'm doing, you have to be sensitive to the fact that you're not dealing with numbers, you're dealing with people. And I will continue to be sensitive to that.

I came into office to do what was correct, not to see what was politically expedient to get re-elected.

When I came into office, I could have kicked the can down the road for a little while, or I could do the right thing.

I watched Reagan turn around the country by lowering taxes and controlling spending, and I'm applying the same principles.

The GOP can't even envision winning the White House if we lose a significant percentage of the Hispanic vote.

I came into the Republican party in 1980, when I was a college student at Georgetown.