As a former minority leader who became the first Republican Speaker of the House in Florida since Reconstruction, I know that leadership is not an easy task.

My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.

If we do our job right, then we have everything to stand on. If we don't do our job, we have everything to lose on.

Some people have been talking about - every place I go, they bring up the issue of foreign aid. I go, 'You can't get rid of all foreign aid.'

America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable.

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

This is the problem with the United States: there's no leadership. A leader would say, 'Police brutality is an oxymoron. There are no brutal police. The minute you become brutal you're no longer police.' So, what, we're not dealing with police. We're dealing with a federally authorized gang.

When President Obama was in the Senate, when he was a U.S. senator, he voted against raising the debt ceiling. And he said it was a lack of leadership that had brought us to this point.