I know I was a businessman for years, and I stayed up countless nights worrying about having to let one person go. It's a terrible thing to do.

I like to be a strategic policy guy.

I play the guitar a little bit.

I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.

I'm never going to rule anything out in life, because most of what I'm doing now, I never intended to do.

I'm not a kingmaker.

If we want to secure the best jobs in the future, we must make America the best place in the world to do business.

It has always been my plan not to serve more than two terms.

Marriage is a religious and state issue.

Republicans are the only one who can carry the banner of what I think millions of Americans are saying.

Sometimes people credit me for the Tea Party. It's actually the other way around.

The Democrats have essentially decided to move more toward central power, control of just about every aspect of our culture and economy.

The problem we've got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.

The Tea Party doesn't like politicians.

We have this kind of revolving door, we don't have a permanent class of millionaires in America like a lot of other countries.

We must now make clear to Lebanon that it will not benefit from U.S. assistance and support as long as it harbors this brutal terrorist and murder.

We need comprehensive reform that will make America the best place in the world to invest and do business.

Well, I'm not trying to get rid of the unions, but I am saying that they appear to be an antiquated concept in today's economy.

Well, purity - there's no purity in politics.

What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator.