Tony Perkins: “Our role is not to make a president. Our role in Washington is to shape public policy.”

The fact is there are not cohesive voices within the Republican Party providing leadership, giving those ideas.

This is going to have ramifications on other state legislators, I think, even as close as New York and New Jersey, where legislators are going to think twice before they pick up this special interest agenda.

This is a case of judicial arrogance and ignorance. This is a state-level -- a district-level court judge who -- who thinks they know better than the 230-plus years of history in this country and is setting precedent. And Congress should…

The reality is, the president has to choose between delivering to a radical, but small and vocal, portion of his base or keeping the support of a lot of moderates that he needs to pass other issues, like health care reform.