Marginal tax rates are the lowest they’ve been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.

Letting someone down is not criminal action.

Its often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census.

If you stop one terror attack in the U.S., it may be connected to multiple other plots out there that are connected. If you reveal that you stopped one plot, it may tip our hand.

It's what a partisan hack would do, and that's what we have in Hillary Clinton and John Kerry. And this is what you're putting forward.

It's better to have this time now than 14 months from now, (but) we have to start talking to the base, or they will stay home.

This place is a much more sophisticated junior high school. There are the nice guys that everybody likes, the jocks, the geeks, the bullies ? they're all here. It's a representative democracy.

Often a blank slate gets to the court and then leans to the left,

It was to set a tone, ... Just because the average age on our team is 10 years older, just because they're 100 pounds bigger and a foot taller, we would not be the demure members of Congress. We would actually be aggressive.

We got a number of good things done this year. It's rewarding to turn an idea into law.