For everybody who thinks it's warming, I can find somebody who thinks it isn't.

I know how it feels when you're coming into a new situation, that the other guys won the election.

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

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.

If you've got a brand new administration coming into office you want to have, at the very least, a national security team in place on day one.

I think some of our members may have thought the default issue was a hostage you might take a chance at shooting. Most of us didn’t think that. What we did learn is this - it’s a hostage that’s worth ransoming. And it focuses the Congress on something that must be done.

The classic example I've used - I'm sure you've heard me say it before - was Mark Begich in Alaska who was here for a full six years and never had a roll call vote on an amendment on the floor of the Senate, which Dan Sullivan tells me he used on virtually a daily basis. So the notion that protecting all of your members from votes is a good idea politically, I think, has been pretty much disproved by the recent [Barack Obama] election.