“I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin.”

“The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want to tell the President and remind him again, we're not voting no for political expediency. We've got our principles, and we're going to stand up and defend those.”