Syria and Iran have always had a pretty tight relationship, and it looks to me like they just cooked up a press release to put out to sort of restate the obvious. They're both problem countries; we know that. And this doesn't change anything.

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.

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.

The bill that job creators and out-of-work Americans need us to pass is the one that ensures taxes won't go up - one that says Americans and small-business owners won't get hit with more bad news at the end of the year.

The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.

Mitt Romney has spent his entire life finding ways to solve problems.

For everybody who thinks it's warming, I can find somebody who thinks it isn't.