Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

I think the minimum wage outght to keep pace with inflation. I think the minimum wage is a good thing to have in our country and I think it ought to be updated.

When the President is making it harder to mine coal, to use coal, to take advantage of our gas resources, to make it harder to get our oil resources - all those things combine to make our cost of energy higher than it needs to be, and it drives away enterprises from this country. It sends it to places that have lower-cost energy.

I like silly stuff, too. I like the 'Twilight' series. That was fun.

I like American cars. And I would do nothing to hurt the U.S. auto industry.

Certainly, no church should be involved in trying to set the affairs of the nation.

Barack Obama has done something I find very hard to understand. Ever since FDR, we`ve had the capacity to be engaged in two conflicts at once, and he`s saying, No, we`re going to cut that back to only one conflict.