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Republicans profess to be against deficits, but they are experts at creating and exacerbating deficits.

I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.

There is no ground on which House Republican leaders should compromise until Democrats are finally ready to give up their spending addiction.

I think that people on both sides of the aisle are rejecting what's going on with Washington and the establishment.

The biggest problem with the deficit is programs that are unconstitutional and wasteful.

To be fair, Republicans are not blameless. The deficit began to spiral out of control on President Bush's watch.

On some issues, Republicans and Democrats disagree so sharply that compromise is nearly impossible. Republicans are not going to support a cap-and-trade program to limit greenhouse gases, and Democrats won't support a 1,000-mile wall on the border with Mexico.

The Republicans I know or the conservatives I know, they disagree with what the Republicans are doing in Washington because we are compromising too much.

I've been around Congress long enough to know there are issues we may never see eye-to-eye from the opposite aisle, but we should all agree that our job is to move America forward and benefit the people.

I don't know how anyone can keep a straight face and say they are for deficit reduction while they insist on a permanent tax cut for the wealthiest Americans, completely unpaid for.