He's the kind of person who would always reach out to help with your political needs, your congressional needs, your personal needs.

Unfortunately on casualties, you try and separate yourself from that and do what needs to be done to help everyone involved,

The Democrats are going to be upset because one of their whipping boys is gone. Tom always puts the party first. Time and time and time again, Tom said to me, 'I want to make sure we don't lose this seat.' Now that will not be an issue.

These guys just keep getting up every day and moving forward. Some days aren't easy. They've had a tough run here lately. But the secret of their success through all of these twists and turns in the road is to just keep moving forward.

It's not a real meeting if Karl isn't there. Karl has the absolute, utter trust of the President of the United States.

We have Republican chairmen writing the details of these bills. And I feel very confident and comfortable that we're going to get a great deal.