Don Bacon: “We're the United States of America. We're not Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany or Napoleon's France. I just — we're better than…”

We should have done this a year ago. We could have done this in a bipartisan way a year ago, but we have not.

I think it was important for him to level with the American people. This is going to be a tough fight.

I think it's better to acknowledge, hey, this is hard on the families, it's hard on the service members.

I think most Americans are feeling the pain at the grocery store and the gas.