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" 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. "

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" Today, I'm 60, I'm not married, I don't have any kids. I would give up some Social Security to save a system that Americans are going to depend on now and in the future. "

" When it comes to fossil fuels, we're going to find more here and use less. Over time, we're going to become energy independent. I am tired of sending $300 billion overseas to buy oil from people who hate our guts. The choice between a weak economy and a strong environment is a false choice, that is not the choice I'll offer America. "

" The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be. "

" 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. "

" Al Qaeda is alive and well in Libya, Iraq, Syria and the wars are not receding. "

" We're going to lose Social Security and Medicare if Republicans and Democrats do not come together and find a solution like Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill. I will be the Ronald Reagan if I can find a Tip O'Neill. "

" There's a lot of things we can do to balance out what Obama's done and going forward show the American people the Republican Party can govern. I want a coalition of tea party people, independents, moderate Democrats trying to find a way to move this country forward before we become Greece. "

" We're failing when it comes to controlling spending. "

" No employer is going to hire robustly until they know what the health care cost is going to be. "

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

" According to the FBI and the director of national intelligence, Syria's becoming a perfect platform to strike our nation. I've got a very simple strategy as your president against ISIL. Whatever it takes, as long as it takes, to defeat them. "

" Why did we go to war? Why did we pick people from South Carolina, California, and all the places in between to go to a foreign land and risk their lives and have some die? To make sure that Saddam Hussein could do no more damage to the region or us than he has already done. "

" Well, thank God for a media that will ask questions. "

" Thank God for some Republican control of one branch of the government. "

" The healthcare bill not only is a monstrosity in terms of growing the government and cutting out the private sector, the way it was passed was sleazy. Every old Washington trick was used to pass the healthcare bill. "

" 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. "

" I don't think it's rational for a country to try to kill the Saudi Arabian ambassador in a restaurant in Washington. "

" Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require. "

" I think no one has ever been re-elected with unemployment over 7.6 percent. "

" The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes. "

" We don't have a lot of Reagan-type leaders in our party. Remember Ronald Reagan Democrats? I want a Republican that can attract Democrats. "

" I don't blame anybody for using the tax code to their advantage. "

" We need a president who can solve our problems, bring us together. We're becoming Greece if we don't work together. "

" This idea of holding the Defense Department hostage to the tax debate makes me sick to my stomach. Knock it off. "

" Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008. "

" We need somebody ready to be commander-in-chief on day one, who understands there are no moderates in Iran; they've been killed a long time ago. "

" Iran is part of the problem, not the solution. And the Russian government is ignoring reality. "

" The politics of judges is getting to be red hot. "

" If you make me your president, I'm going to put the country ahead of the party. I'm going to do what it takes to defend this nation. This nation has been great to me, and that's the only way I know to pay you back. "

" I'm the ranking Republican on the foreign aid appropriations subcommittee, so I know Tunisia well. "