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.

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.

It was made clear to me that Music is related to everything, especially nature and language, but in order to speak it naturally, I had to first make myself a part of it.

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

Playground of Dreams supports kids in discovering and achieving their own magnificence, that unique quality that only they have, fostering it, watering it, and watching it sprout!

By creating an artificial environment, we're not stimulating our immune system enough. Germs are immune-stimulants. They challenge you to be prepared.

Having abandoned the taking of life, refraining from killing, we dwell without violence, with the knife laid down, scrupulous, full of mercy, trembling with compassion for all sentient beings.

Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael.

I'm about to play an emaciated pregnant vampire, so I've stopped using as much butter as Paula Deen - just until 'Breaking Dawn' is over.

I can understand why people would want to stay on the road because you create your own bubble. You almost don't live in the real world. Just to have the things that are with you is fine.

Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.