I believe before they do anything substantive down there to rebuild, really rebuild, they should strengthen those levees ... otherwise, with hurricanes coming along, we could be right where we started,

We've got to finish the job. Otherwise, the damage that they did two years ago

A lot of people don't believe that Kirk-Heitkamp is a real reform bill.

I have met Scott Ritter before and I think he's an idealist. I think he wants to believe that everybody's good and the world's going to be safe. But I don't believe there's any real credence to his statements. It looks to me like he's over there courting Saddam Hussein at the wrong time at the wrong place.

I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.

A lot of people believe, and I do at times, that some of our trade agreements are lopsided, and we've got to look at them. But that doesn't mean that we're going to put a tariff on everything.