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 White House has a choice: They can change course, or they can double down on a vision of government that the American people have roundly rejected.

I think there were two messages in last year's election. One is pretty obvious. People were mad as hell at the president [Barack Obama] - and wanted to send a message. We all got that. Our new members were also hearing, and I was hearing as well, that people didn't like the fact that the Congress was dysfunctional. Now they may have been confused about where the dysfunctionality was cause the president kept pointing to the House. Factually, that's not accurate. The dysfunction was in the Senate.

The new troops in Iraq need to be Iraqi troops.

Obama hasn't been working to earn reelection, he's been working to earn a spot on the PGA tour!

A reporter asked recently, 'What keeps you up at night?' I replied that I generally sleep well, but if I ever do have trouble, I don't have to count sheep. I count all the states I'm glad I'm not the governor of.

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