I think it's not just Republicans who would like to see the Senate run differently. I think there are a reasonable number of Democrats as well.

As the leader of the Republicans what I'm telling that we elected the president to be president. It's time for him to step up to the plate and lead us in the direction of reducing our excessive spending.

What we do know is that the American people, regardless of how they feel about the abortion issue, don't think that taxpayer money ought to be used to pay for abortions.

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.

It seems with every new day, we have a new veto threat from the president.

More young people believe they'll see a U.F.O. than that they'll see their own Social Security benefits.

The minimum wage is mostly an entry-level wage for young people.