Quotes from Rob Portman

We need a broader party. If we're not doing better with millennials and women and Hispanics, African Americans, Asian Americans and others, we will have a tough time being a majority party at the national level.

I am disappointed that the President made the decision to have Ambassador Froman sign the TPP agreement in New Zealand.

I have come to believe that if two people are prepared to make a lifetime commitment to love and care for each other in good times and in bad, the government shouldn't deny them the opportunity to get married.

President Obama has been attacking relentlessly. In 2008 he said that if you're out of fresh ideas you use stale tactics against your opponent - you try and make your opponent unacceptable and that's what he is trying to do.

I can give a speech, and I can do a rally, and I do them, but that's not what I like to do.

I told my staff that I'm so boring that I didn't even know I was boring.

Our country needs people who are maybe a little less focused on themselves and on the flash and a little more focused on how do we actually create a better environment for success for our young people, how do we get people back to work, how do we regain our standing internationally.

I'm not here today to tell you government doesn't have a role to play. It does, but it needs to be the right role.

My dad did everything he could. It was a start-up, and the banks didn't want to lend him enough money, so he mortgaged our house.

Do you agree with me that we can't afford four more years of Barack Obama?

The U.S. has fallen behind with tax policies that haven't been updated in a half-century.

You could have another downgrade. You could certainly have a stock market reaction that would be negative. And, I think nobody who looks at it objectively would want to happen.

I'm very happy where I am: I'm a senator from Ohio.

John Kasich is the most popular elected official in Ohio because he got things done.

I'm not representing any organization. I represent the people of Ohio, and a lot of people in Ohio feel very strongly about their Second Amendment rights.

People vote for the president, not the vice president. I think sometimes people that are in the veepstakes talk too much about this and certainly the media does. I don't think that it's that important.

This past year has been very turbulent for the Middle East, and my conversation with Prime Minister Netanyahu strengthened my belief that we need to remain vigilant in our support of our critical ally.

We have to ensure we are aggressively enforcing existing laws.

I'd like to think I'm a serious legislator and trying to get things done.

I like to think I am a serious legislator and trying to get things done. That's my goal in life, to get things done.

Kyrie Irving could use a little help.

All of our sons and daughters ought to have the same opportunity to experience the joy and stability of marriage.