No matter what a candidate for president may say during the campaign, once someone is sworn in, they are constrained by the Constitution - about what the Constitution allows and doesn't allow, what the law allows and doesn't allow.

I don't in any way think the American people rejected the Republican Party, or we'd be in a lot worse shape than we are.

It's time Congress got its priorities straight.

It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.

Some contend that, by fulfilling our promise to the American people, we're somehow trying to go back to the way things were before ObamaCare - which we all know is untrue.

After 1994, the public had the impression we Republicans overpromised and underdelivered.

Don't fall in love with the map. The map doesn't win elections.

You can give to Americans for Prosperity or something else - a variety of different ways to push back against the party of government.

We need to strengthen and save Social Security for today's workers. If we don't act now, this system, born out of the New Deal, will become a bad deal.

What I have said is, when the American people elect divided government, what are they saying? I think they're saying we know you have differences of opinion on big things.

It is time to move away from advise and obstruct and get back to advise and consent.

If the administration wants cooperation, it will have to begin to move in our direction.

The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress.

I don't think it's all that unusual for a new president to want to get along with the Russians. I remember George W. Bush having the same hope.

I only talk to the press if it's to my advantage.

There is a lot of room for improvement in Social Security. We owe our children the most financially sound system possible. They will have paid into it their entire working lives. They deserve to be protected by it. for our children and grandchildren.

Syria and Iran have always had a pretty tight relationship, and it looks to me like they just cooked up a press release to put out to sort of restate the obvious. They're both problem countries; we know that. And this doesn't change anything.

The new troops in Iraq need to be Iraqi troops.

The president feels not only do we need to change these rogue regimes, but even our friendly allies, who really basically have, sort of, benign dictatorships, need to get with the program if they want to have long-term security and prosperity from terrorism.

Bolton's exactly what the U.N. needs at this point. The president's right on the mark in picking him.

I think the important thing to remember here is that we haven't been attacked again at home since September of 2001.

The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined.

We're not gonna misread our mandate.

By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto. They gave the impression they were somehow in charge when they weren't.

We're living under the Obama economy. Any CEO in America with a record like this after three years on the job would be graciously shown the door. This president blames the managers instead. He blames the folks on the shop floor. He blames the weather.

While other state governments stiff their vendors, close parks, delay tax refunds, and ignore unacceptably poor service levels, Indiana state employees are setting national standards for efficiency.

And this year, when we end the cruel, defeatist practice of passing children who cannot read into fourth grade, and when our most diligent students begin to graduate from high school in 11 years, and get a head start on college costs with the dollars they earned through their hard work, others will take notice of Indiana yet again.

America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government.

It just doesn't occur to an American that someone else will solve their problems. Americans take pride in solving problems for themselves. And if we fail, we get back up and try again. It's what we do. It's who we are.

For four years, Barack Obama has been running from the nation's problems. He hasn't been working to earn reelection. He's been working to earn a spot on the PGA tour.

We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn't know he lost his job, the recent college grad facing up to the painful reality that the only door that's open to her after four years of study and a pile of debt is her parents'. These are the faces of the Obama economy.

Mitt Romney has spent his entire life finding ways to solve problems.

Do we need to tighten restrictions on people coming into the country? I think there's a good argument for that, but a kind of broad ban is a bad idea, and, of course, many American Muslims are great sources of information as we seek to look for domestic folks who might be engaged in trying to promote terrorist activities.

The border is way more porous than it should be, and I think we'd be open to discussing anything that enhances border security.

The American people gave us a new majority in 2014.

I'm optimistic that none of my members in the end want to be responsible for the status quo on Obamacare.

My wife came here at age 8 not speaking a word of English and ended up in the president's Cabinet.

The implication here is that those who came to America legally over the years are somehow second-class citizens.

We all got here from somewhere else going back in our lineage. And I think these gratuitous attacks on Americans who got here recently or whose parents got here recently need to stop.

My first memory in life was my last visit to Warm Springs.

The Senate is not the sort of place where instant gratification, I should say, is very likely.

I think it's a big mistake for our party to write off Latino Americans. They're an important part of our country.

I believe that marriage should be between one man and one woman.

My job is to try to protect jobs in Kentucky now, not speculate about science in the future.

What will happen is the bills will start out the way we like them; in order to move them - we'll probably have to make compromises. That's the way the legislative process works when it's functioning.

I always think a debt ceiling is a good tool to carry something.

I think we know enough now to know that Donald Trump is doing the same kinds of things that Jeb Bush would have done or Marco Rubio would have done or Mitt Romney would have done.

I think that winning the White House is about more than just entertaining a large audience.

The country is yearning for a change. I'd rather take my chances on somebody new, particularly with regard to the Supreme Court.

The Russians are clearly a big adversary, and they demonstrated it by trying to mess around in our election.