"By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto. They gave the impression they were somehow in charge when they weren't."

"The White House has a choice: They can change course, or they can double down on a vision of government that the American people have roundly rejected."

"After adding trillions to the debt on big-government policies most Americans didn't ask for and which we couldn't afford, Democratic leaders say they need more money, which they intend to take from small business, even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs."

"Today, Democrats not only have the White House; they have the Senate too. So we have to be realistic about what we can and cannot achieve, while at the same recognizing that realism should never be confused with capitulation."

"The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it."

"The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined."

"It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution."

"The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress."

"We're not gonna misread our mandate."

"The fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill; to end the bailouts; cut spending; and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won't veto any of these things."

"We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century."

"Bolton's exactly what the U.N. needs at this point. The president's right on the mark in picking him."

"If the administration wants cooperation, it will have to begin to move in our direction."

"Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession."

"It's time Congress got its priorities straight."

"I think the important thing to remember here is that we haven't been attacked again at home since September of 2001."

"There is a lot of room for improvement in Social Security. We owe our children the most financially sound system possible. They will have paid into it their entire working lives. They deserve to be protected by it. for our children and grandchildren."

"We need to strengthen and save Social Security for today's workers. If we don't act now, this system, born out of the New Deal, will become a bad deal."

"More young people believe they'll see a U.F.O. than that they'll see their own Social Security benefits."

"Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish."

"The new troops in Iraq need to be Iraqi troops."

"The bill that job creators and out-of-work Americans need us to pass is the one that ensures taxes won't go up - one that says Americans and small-business owners won't get hit with more bad news at the end of the year."

"Syria and Iran have always had a pretty tight relationship, and it looks to me like they just cooked up a press release to put out to sort of restate the obvious. They're both problem countries; we know that. And this doesn't change anything."