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Republicans will own Congress.
I want to see the economy rebound.
Not every problem is solvable, okay.
In business, you try to solve problems.
We need to make sure we have secure borders.
I'm a lawmaker, but I really don't like laws.
People read way too much into personalities and all that stuff.
I started working when I was 13, picking up trash, bagging ice.
I saved $8,000 and created a construction company when I was 25.
There are times where the dysfunction in the Senate just goes too far.
If it took multiple debt ceiling hikes, I'd rather achieve the savings.
The President Donald Trump has great difficulty with the truth on many issues.
I find it very difficult to see a scenario where financial regulation doesn't pass the Senate.
You never know when the timing is going to hit in a such a way that you're going to make a difference.
I was embarrassed when I went and told my parents that I was thinking about running for public office.
Right now, the leadership in Iran is telling their citizens one thing. Our President is telling us another.
My role is not so much to lobby but be a sounding board for people. That's a more effective place for me to be.
I didn't go to Harvard or Princeton, but I can count - the defunding box canyon is a tactic that will fail and weaken our position.
My dad just imprinted in my mind from a very young age that you always do what you say you're gonna do when you say you're gonna do it.
If your focus in life is on being productive, when things are not happening... one has to ask oneself, 'Is this worth a grown man's time?'
I think all of us who have been in Afghanistan on the ground multiple times know that what we're doing there on the ground is just not sustainable.
It is not really our country so much is the problem, it's sort of the parasitic relationship that Canada, and France, and other countries have towards us.
If the Senate can't perform its most basic responsibilities, I worry about how we're going to make the tough decisions and do the hard work that will be necessary to get our country on a path to fiscal solvency.
The attack on Americans in Benghazi on September 11, 2012 is a stark reminder that our nation must remain vigilant in protecting our citizens from the threat of Al-Qaeda and similar extremist terrorist entities around the world.
The president Donald Trump has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability, nor some of the competence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful. He also recently has not demonstrated that he understands the character of his nation.
I have gone to great lengths, and in some cases beyond what is required by the reporting guidelines to ensure all of my filings are beyond reproach, by hiring an independent third-party accounting firm to review and audit all of my previous annual financial disclosures.
I think in many ways president Trump views himself as someone who has the ability to overcome every obstacle and to do something that no other president has been able to do. And I think that's the way he views himself, as it relates to his legacy and how history will view him.
The relationship that we have with Russia is solely because of Putin. What he's done is an affront to the American people to try to have an effect on the election outcomes here. It had to be spoken to. I think we did it in a very appropriate manner. I'm proud of the legislation.
The debt ceiling at some point has to be raised. I don't think there's anybody that questions the fact that if we ended up getting in a situation where the U.S. government was sending out IOUs like the state of California did at one point, that ends up creating quite a brand problem for our country.
I do not see Russia as a friend of the United States in any form or fashion. Are there some things that we might be able to work together on? Sure. We certainly haven't seen evidence of their desire to fight terrorism with us. I mean, we see them kill civilians, and you know, help Syrian President Bashar Assad concentrate more fully his power.
When Donald Trump's term is over, I think, the debasing of the American nation - the constant non-truth-telling, the name-calling - the debasement of our nation will be what he will be remembered most for. And that's regretful, and it affects young people. We have young people who for the fist time are watching a President stating absolute non-truths, non-stop, personalizing things in the way that he does. And it's very sad for our nation.