I have to be a little pessimistic. There is no real stomach for fiscal discipline right now.

It's inexcusable, ... We're going to march ourselves right into the minority and we have no one to blame but ourselves.

People need to keep in mind that the grass is fuel right now. It's not vegetation. It's fuel. Even throwing a lit cigarette out a car window is prohibited by this order if it happens near a field of grass.

There's no shortage of places where the federal government can tighten its belt to pay the cost of the hurricane recovery effort. Let's face it, after years of uninterrupted growth, the federal government is bloated.

There's a lot of fat to trim. ... I wonder if we've been serving in the same Congress.

If voters want bigger government, sooner or later they're going to return to the genuine article, and that's the Democratic Party,