How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African-American congressmen, how did that party become a party that now loses 95 percent of the black vote?

This flirtation with isolationism in the Republican party is over. It's giving way to a more muscular foreign policy than I've been advocating. But I'm also advocating building up others. Build a small schoolhouse in Afghanistan to help a poor young girl have a say about her children will destroy the ideology more than a bomb.

My belief has always been that national defense is the most important thing we do, but we shouldn't borrow to pay for it.

Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.

Hardened terrorists are coming here to hit us hard if we don't hit them first.

We need to get insurance out of the way and let the consumer interact with their doctor the way they did basically before World War II.

Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.