President Obama had two Supreme Court nominees in his first term. There was no filibuster against them.
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.
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.
The implication here is that those who came to America legally over the years are somehow second-class citizens.
The people who would call me an obstructionist overlook some inconvenient facts.
The Senate is not the sort of place where instant gratification, I should say, is very likely.
The new troops in Iraq need to be Iraqi troops.
We need to bear in mind that we don't have religious tests in this country, and we also need to remember that some of our best allies in the war against Islamic terrorism are Muslims.
The majority in the Senate is prepared to restore the Senate's traditions and precedents to ensure that regardless of party, any president's judicial nominees, after full and fair debate, receive a simple up-or-down vote on the Senate floor.
My job is to try to protect jobs in Kentucky now, not speculate about science in the future.
I try to appeal to all Kentucky voters, regardless of gender, about the future of state.
I think that winning the White House is about more than just entertaining a large audience.
As I've said repeatedly over the last few years, the war on coal was not a result of anything Congress passed; there was no legislation.
The fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill; to end the bailouts; cut spending; and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won't veto any of these things.
Nurses told my mother that I was going to be OK. They thought I could walk without a limp and without a brace. And we stopped in a shoe store on the way home and bought a pair of low-top saddle Oxford shoes, which was sort of a symbol that I was going to be a normal little boy.
I don't think there should be a litmus test on judges, no matter who the president is.
I ran for president of the student council at my high school in Louisville. And ran against a guy who I thought was better known and little bit better student and managed to win.
I think I'd like to be an owner of a Major League Baseball team.
We're not gonna misread our mandate.
Mitt Romney has spent his entire life finding ways to solve problems.