I'm nobody's deputy. I am who I am. I'm my own person.

The Tea Party movement as I perceive it is all about recognizing the difference between state and federal powers. And that there are limits to federal power that need to be respected.

I want to be one that is willing to do things that are not easy but that need to be done.

When you have less revenue coming in the door, you have more money going out the door. You have to find ways of trimming.

The trend of offering individualized education plans, curricula, and lessons is going to help students tremendously. “Teaching to the middle” is one of the saddest concepts I've ever heard about.

My political views have since I was a kid someway or another reflected the concerns of Tea Party movement.

When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.

Limited government must come politically, not judicially.

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

Congress constitutionally lacks general police powers.

I think I was about 30 before I realized that not every family talks about the presentment clause on a regular basis.

Any time a beloved character is killed off, it affects the audience in a very powerful way, especially in a series.

... science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not.

We're authors. We're more than a little unstable.

We have proclaimed to the world our determination 'to die freemen, rather than to live slaves.' We have appealed to Heaven for the justice of our cause, and in Heaven we have placed our trust.

I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.

I look upon logical proofs the way a well-bred girl looks upon a love letter

The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle.

Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?

Prayer is where the cross changes shoulders.

The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him - it cannot fail