Today, you're a piranha if you are seen having coffee with somebody from the other party in many cases.

I do not think that anybody should get paid for lousy performance. I've said that for a long time. If you work hard and you do good, you get paid well.

The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry. But we live in a complex world where you're going to have to have a level of security greater than you did back in the olden days, if you will. And our laws and our interpretation of the Constitution, I think, have to change.

Buy what's deliverable, not what could be.

Trees will improve property values, take pollutants out of the air, help with water runoff.

There is no accountability today... no willingness to focus on big ideas.

We need to have more taxes, not less, and we need the taxes we have, certainly, to provide services - for defense and education and health care. We should not cut money here in order to cut taxes.