Opening markets abroad through trade agreements is especially important for American small businesses and manufacturers to enhance growth and job creation.

Reducing health care costs for families requires increased competition in health insurance.

We need to make sure people continue to have access to retirement plans because everyone deserves the opportunity to retire with dignity and financial independence.

The TPP supports economic growth and job creation in America while expanding access for American goods and services in the Asia-Pacific region.

We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.

To me, what success looks like is not to believe that Afghanistan can become a unified, Western-style democracy with a developed-country economy just yet. I think success in the American interest is some level of assurance that it's not going to be a place that again leads to an attack on the American homeland.

When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to.

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.