In the U.S. Senate, in the short term we need to reduce the tax burden on hard working individuals, families, and small businesses.

I grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm, so when I come to Washington, I'll know how to cut pork.

I do have reason to believe there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

I have a beautiful little Smith & Wesson, 9 millimeter, and it goes with me virtually everywhere.

You just need the freedom to dream big and a whole lot of hard work.

You don't need to come from wealth or privilege to make a difference.

What's right for New York or California, is not necessarily right for Iowa.

I worked the morning biscuit line at Hardee's.

In the Iowa senate, I helped pass the largest tax cut in state history - returning over four billion dollars in savings and putting more money back in the pockets of hard-working Iowa families.

As a soldier and combat veteran, I believe American military forces should only be used in the defense and furtherance of our nation's vital interests.

Let’s shut down the EPA. The state knows best how to protect resources.

Practicing dialogue helps you to cultivate a realness that allows you to face reality on its own terms, not just the terms you’d like it to have in order to remain in your comfort zone.

You earn brotherhood—the purest friendship, trust, love, whatever you want to call it—moment by moment through how you treat others.

We have all at one time been stranded on islands shouting lies across the seas of misunderstanding, hoping the fog will carry our mischief to the distant ports in people’s minds.

There reaches a time when it is betrayal for a woman to sleep with her husband.

If you think I'm annoying and preachy now, you should have known me in grade school.

Those Aussie rugby fans are a bunch of sore losers. I hate 'em all.

The world that I come from is the world of raves, hip-hop clubs, and rock and roll.

There will always be real friends and fake friends. It is difficult to distinguish the two because both will appear the same in the beginning but so different at the end.

The last time I was charged by the FA they had a murder lawyer in against me, so it's going to be a hard case to win.

We must fear God out of love, not love Him out of fear.