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

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.

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.

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

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.

The product you produced is the evidence of the value in your life

Sometimes I'm not even satisfied when I got 6 points and 22 rebounds, because I'm always looking to do more.

Progess, do not regress.

Richard Strauss--Old Home Week in Gomorrah

You might be a redneck if your boat has not left the driveway in 15 years.

... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote - the Daguerreotype. (1845)

But Fortune, who never forgets her duty, turns her wheel suddenly.

Good companies will meet needs; great companies will create markets.

No one commits suicide because they want to die.

All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.