I'm in favor of doing tax reform, but I think tax reform ought to be revenue neutral as it was back during the [Ronald] Reagan years. We've resolved this issue.

The new troops in Iraq need to be Iraqi troops.

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.

By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto. They gave the impression they were somehow in charge when they weren't.

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

What I said to the members [of Congress] who hoped they would be chairmen: let's don't have that problem. Be thinking now about legislation that you have, preferably that enjoys some Democratic support because we certainly didn't think we were going to have 60 and we don't.

It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.