I didn't expect anybody on the House side to get out in front,

We were on the front side of the house. And we were just starting to put shingles down on the roof. And then on the back side of the house, Tom was climbing up the ladder and then we just all of a sudden heard somebody fall.

Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are.

Quite frankly, I think nothing could do more to immediately bolster national security then enabling us to produce more oil and gas here at home at a price consumers could afford.

There are a lot of things you can say about the Bush tax cuts, but you can't say they didn't work.

The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.