We got a number of good things done this year. It's rewarding to turn an idea into law.

We've had a large undermining of our traditional values in this country. And I think that was a repercussion of the hippies in the '60s and their 'anything goes' attitude. Our generation has a realistic approach. We're not sort of pie-in-the-sky people.

Often a blank slate gets to the court and then leans to the left,

I got a lot of pressure over a period of about two weeks, and I held my ground, ... I was committed to a cause.

I thought it would take years for a new member to become a player, ... It's better than I expected.

It was to set a tone, ... Just because the average age on our team is 10 years older, just because they're 100 pounds bigger and a foot taller, we would not be the demure members of Congress. We would actually be aggressive.