To legislate is to make rules, rules carrying the force of generally applicable law.

Making sure there is a religious exemption here would not in my opinion cause either of the two problems that have been suggested.

whether you are a Republican or a Democrat, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, whether you are pro-immigration reform or anti-immigration reform, especially if you are a Member of Congress, and in any event if you favor the rule…

The Senate does in fact have control over its own calendar. Article 1 makes that pretty clear.

I certainly appreciate your concerns. I respect and I agree with your desire to ensure that we have civility marking all of our proceedings in Congress.

If we were to come out in favor of the union or even say that he sides with them, he's going against his former chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago.

As to what to do for the housing industry specifically -- are there things that you can do to encourage housing? One is don't try and stop the foreclosure process. Let it run its course and hit the bottom. Allow investors to buy homes, put…

When and if I become president of the United States, I will not take God out of my heart. I will not take God out of the public square and I will not take it out of the platform of my party.

I will not take God out of the name of our platform.

I expect him to report, to come to the American people and say, when I ran four years ago, here are the promises made, and then describe why it was or why it was not that he was able to carry out his promise. But he didn't talk about that…

the president isn't keeping the promises he made in 2008 to get this economy going again.

I thought maybe it's an excuse -- what do you mean shut up? OK, I thought it was just because somebody had a stupid idea of trying terrorists in downtown New York City.

I think Mr. Romney asked the only sensible question on it. He said, why are you giving the date out now? Why don't you just bring them home tomorrow morning?

My side's got to fight back on this too and I hope we will.

Governor Romney told CBS News tonight that it was not meant as a swipe at the president; it was just a joke, he said, because he was back home in his birth state of Michigan.

It was just a joke because he said because he was back home in his birth state of Michigan.

Clearly, lots Democrats are willing to say we have them in our documentary, saying that they believe it was politically motivated.

The more cautious he seems to get, the more mistakes he makes, because he's not loose on the stump.