While other state governments stiff their vendors, close parks, delay tax refunds, and ignore unacceptably poor service levels, Indiana state employees are setting national standards for efficiency.

I honestly thought we wouldn't hold the U.S. Senate. I thought we'd come up short and I didn't think President Donald Trump had a chance of winning. Given my expectations, doubly exciting because I thought we'd come up short on the Senate. We had a lot of exposure. That was really something. But it never occurred to me that he might be able to win as well.

Tiger Woods and John Edwards had a better year than the stimulus bill.

We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn't know he lost his job, the recent college grad facing up to the painful reality that the only door that's open to her after four years of study and a pile of debt is her parents'. These are the faces of the Obama economy.

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.

The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined.

The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.