By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter.

This president [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.

I'm not in favor of privatizing Social Security or making cuts.

It was absolutely critical to renew the Bush tax cuts. Letting them expire would result in a massive tax increase that would retard economic growth.