It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.

It's a shame that the president doesn't embrace the effort to reduce spending. None of us like using situations like the sequester or the debt ceiling or the operation of government to try to engage the president to deal with this.

I don't think there's any equivalency between the way that the Russians conduct themselves and the way the United States does.

I think it's not just Republicans who would like to see the Senate run differently. I think there are a reasonable number of Democrats as well.

The classic example I've used - I'm sure you've heard me say it before - was Mark Begich in Alaska who was here for a full six years and never had a roll call vote on an amendment on the floor of the Senate, which Dan Sullivan tells me he used on virtually a daily basis. So the notion that protecting all of your members from votes is a good idea politically, I think, has been pretty much disproved by the recent [Barack Obama] election.

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

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