We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.

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.

We're living under the Obama economy. Any CEO in America with a record like this after three years on the job would be graciously shown the door. This president blames the managers instead. He blames the folks on the shop floor. He blames the weather.

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

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.

We didn't make much progress on the country's agenda. And in my view it's because the Senate basically hadn't done much of anything, with a couple of exceptions, for the last four years [of Barack Obama's presidency]. And that's going to change.

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