Quit campaigning, quit having press conferences, sit down at a round table and negotiate a deal.

You've got to do that every now and then. Even though you might get your little flak from some of the people within your conference. It's called leadership.

It's called leadership, Anderson.

My recommendation to the Congress and to the president would be, quit campaigning, quit having press conferences. Sit down at a round table and negotiate a deal.

We are going to start doing things a little differently. We are going to go back and do some of the things that worked.

I was always a conservative Republican and I had very strong beliefs about certain things we should or should not do. But also thought that I was sent to Washington by the people of my state not to make a statement but to make a difference…

I was accused of being a compromiser or a deal-maker. I didn't know those were dirty words.

When you're dealing with 100 United States senators, let alone 435 House members, you're not going to get it all the way you want it. The president's going to have to give some, the president is going to have to show leadership.

I think if they would go back to the old way of getting things done, carefully and systematically, would really help them.

Would you at the very least sit down with him and listen to him?

A lot of it is because Republicans when they start talking don't talk about education. You have to talk about it. You have to go there, where they are.