A competition of the best ideas - that should be what Congress is about.

Presidents should do whatever possible and practical to encourage an environment of cooperation and bipartisanship. And they should maintain a certain level of decorum, diplomacy and decency. But, at the end of the day, presidents get elected to enact change.

As a Republican, I never expected to be working with Hillary Clinton.

As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.

I don't really care how or why Obama got to the right place on gay marriage. I'm just glad he got there.

I'm saying it loud: I'm a Republican who supports gay rights.

It's much more powerful and compelling to create a positive vision than it is to tear somebody down.