This is a bittersweet day for me, ... I would have liked my Republican Party to be in the forefront of this issue.

[One Republican said the party would be judged on how decisively it responds to these accusations of wrongdoing and others in which leading Republicans are entangled.] What is our standard? ... The bottom line is how we handle it.

My party is going to have to decide whether we are going to continue to make excuses for Tom to the detriment of Republicans seeking election.

There's still three more years. Look, this has been a rough patch, as rough as this modern-day Republican Party has been through in 30 years. But while this has been going on, look at the other side of the aisle, no leaders, no ideas, no agenda.

The Republican Party once could lay claim to the mantle of being the fiscally responsible, or 'Daddy,' Party.

The Republican Party is not inclusive.