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.

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

Where we are now is we have resolved the revenue issue and the question is what are we going to do about spending. I wish the president would lead us in this discussion rather than putting himself in a position of having to be dragged kicking and screaming to the table to discuss the single biggest issue confronting our future.

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

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's important to remember that some of our best sources in the war against radical Islamic terrorism are Muslims, both in America and overseas.

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