We must also address climate change. The scientific consensus is clear.

I do not believe it has ever been more clear that our Nation's economic and national security are directly linked to our energy policy.

This addiction to foreign oil is a direct threat to our national security.

I just spent the last year and a half getting a farm bill passed, and we paid for the farm bill.

Please don't be drawing lines in the sand.

I hope people are open to understanding that, you know, everybody has their own view, but to accomplish big things takes compromise around here.

All politics is local.

I am a strong advocate of PAYGO, but to me this is way beyond what PAYGO can do.

There is a disconnect...between what we are doing as a country here in terms of our fiscal policy and our monetary policy and how it affects real people's lives.

those of us in politics rarely admit we were wrong, but I was wrong about Dr. Holtz-Eakin.

We are building a wall of debt.