I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.

I'd pull my little brother on our motorcycle on an inner tube behind it. We would go fishing, we would hunt some, growing up.

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.

If he wants their labor, let them go to work, without regard to politics.

There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants.

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

Politics isn't a reality show or a gong show. It's not show business for ugly people. It's the arena where we define our common life in a rough and ready contest that has winners and losers.