Every time Washington regulators pass down another heavy-handed rule or levy another hefty fine, Colorado loses potential jobs, revenue, and economic security.

Every Democrat on Capitol Hill professes to be a fiscal hawk.

In America, small business is a big deal.

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.

As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust.

The new discovery of a 3.3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's second largest oil producer.

Just to keep up with population growth, on average our economy needs to be adding about 125,000 jobs per month.

Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom.

Americans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks.

Obliging elected Democrats willingly pander to the radical lefties who elevated them to their throne.

In choosing Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney made a fantastic choice and a bold statement to the American people.

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

Everything is going to change. We just need to see how those changes are going to play out, for better or worse.

But my thoughtsbreed truthsthat my heartcan'tbare.Like Melody.

I feel like old age in America is a very sad thing. I have been many different places around the world where getting older is something you look forward to.

I do not like violence.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion.

The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.

Adoption was a bumpy ride - very bumpy. But, God, was it worth the fight.

This that is tormented and very tired, tortured with restraints like a madman, this heart.

I don't think fear necessarily is a core human emotion, but I do think fear of death is something that is at the core of every person's existence.