What happens in committee if the committee functions, more often than not, not every time but more often than not, a bill comes out with bipartisan support.

Syria and Iran have always had a pretty tight relationship, and it looks to me like they just cooked up a press release to put out to sort of restate the obvious. They're both problem countries; we know that. And this doesn't change anything.

We have a debt the size of our economy, which makes us look a lot like Greece.

You'll regret this, and you may regret this a lot sooner than you think.

Republicans will not be reduced to being the tax collectors for the Obama economy.

I'm not going to critique the president's every utterance, but I do think America is exceptional. America is different. We don't operate in any way the Russians do. I think there's a clear distinction here that all Americans understand, and no, I would not have characterized it that way.

We didn't make much progress on the country's agenda. And in my view it's because the Senate basically hadn't done much of anything, with a couple of exceptions, for the last four years [of Barack Obama's presidency]. And that's going to change.