What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.

The politics of judges is getting to be red hot.

Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I'm going to do is play politics with their future.

President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.

I dare say there may be some men and women in the Armed Forces who are so decent that they would say: Give the Iraqi people money, we do not want to be paid back. That is the strength of our country.

Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business.