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.

All Citizens United did was to level the playing field for corporate speech. We now have, I think, the most free and open system we've had in modern times.

We're certainly gonna keep our commitment to the American people to make every effort we can to repeal [Obamacare].

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

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

Public disclosure of campaign contributions and spending should be expedited so voters can judge for themselves what is appropriate.