By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto. They gave the impression they were somehow in charge when they weren't.

Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.

For everybody who thinks it's warming, I can find somebody who thinks it isn't.

What we do know is that the American people, regardless of how they feel about the abortion issue, don't think that taxpayer money ought to be used to pay for abortions.

I'm in favor of doing tax reform, but I think tax reform ought to be revenue neutral as it was back during the [Ronald] Reagan years. We've resolved this issue.

I think the important thing to remember here is that we haven't been attacked again at home since September of 2001.

I think some of our members may have thought the default issue was a hostage you might take a chance at shooting. Most of us didn’t think that. What we did learn is this — it’s a hostage that’s worth ransoming. And it focuses the Congress on something that must be done.

All Citizens United did was to level the playing field for corporate speech. We now have, I think, the most free and open system we've had in modern times.