We don't want to follow Europe. We don't want a welfare state. We don't want a debt crisis. We don't want to prolong this recession. We don't want to keep this path of household incomes going down $4,000. We want to turn this thing around.

I'm excited for what lies ahead. I'm thrilled to be part of America's comeback team. And together, we will unite America and get this done!

We will play these issues later. But our job is to strengthen and protect Medicare. That's what we do. President Obama, they're raiding and ultimately rationing Medicare.

Look, we have a normal life here in Janesville, my wife and I, three beautiful kids. We have soccer on Saturdays. We have cub scouts. We have a normal life like everybody else. I go to Washington four days a week, which I call the silly…

The idea that these entrepreneurs owe all their success to some government bureaucrat or some centralized planner just defies reality.

the Republicans' budget, would increase the debt by $5 trillion over 10 years but President Obama's budget, if he gets everything he's asked for, would increase it by $10 trillion, twice the amount, taking us from $15 trillion in the hole…

No. I'm anticipating it.

If you do agree with these decades-long principles and understandings that big contributions directly at candidates are a bad thing and potentially corrupting that these super PACs put us right back to the pre-Watergate era with that…

To my great disappointment, it appears that the politics of division are making a great comeback. Instead of working together where we agree, the president has opted for divisive rhetoric and the broken politics of the past.

But I still like the idea of corporate tax reform. I think that would be health for growth.

the fact that it's going to expire means that we've already given at the office.