It kind of takes the gas out of your legs. You just kind of get down.

This was one of those games you don’t want to lose at all. You’ll give everything to win this game.

We had the top of the order coming up and that’s what I wanted to make sure we could get to. Those guys are all three and four year letter men for us. We get...

When you’re in elected office, you always have to operate under the assumption that you’re in a dog fight for re-election. It’s when you don’t prepare for a tough battle, when you’re caught flat-footed, that...

It was good to come from behind. We’ve got a bunch of seniors, so you kind of expect them to step up at some time. That first game with St. Henry we weren’t very happy,...

What we need is more money back in the hands of Americans of any economic standing and so raising taxes right now doesn’t make sense.

This is huge for bragging rights because everybody says that we don’t play teams and 1A isn’t anything big. It just kind of puts us on the map a little bit more.

I love the Capitol rotunda. It’s just so big and so grand, and I love being in the Capitol at night when it’s empty, and you can go stand in the Capitol rotunda and bask...

D.J. is just looking for ways to win and will do anything it takes to win. If it takes a pass or a block or a rebound, he’s going to get it. He’s versatile.

Raising taxes doesn’t create jobs, and this is a common sense thing. Washington doesn’t get it. They believe if they take more money and send it to Washington, D.C. somehow they create wealth. It doesn’t...

Certainly in the Capitol you do get moments were you sort of take a deep breath and think of all the historic figures who have been in that building, like Abraham Lincoln, who have stood...

There’s an issue with the Medicare doctor reimbursement rates where at the end of the year every doctor that folks in this country use that provide Medicare services is going to get a 30 percent...

In the current law we’re seeing Social Security dwindle. And so what we’re saying is if we’re going to reduce taxes we just want to make sure that there are things within the law that...

To go from chairman of the House Appropriations Committee in the Kansas Legislature to one of 50 on the Appropriations Committee and one of 435 in the whole House, it is more difficult to directly...