There is a difficult leap between talking about balancing the budget and actually doing it.

What we lack is a good, strong business climate with lower taxes, fairer regulation.

Our focus is on ensuring America has the strongest economy in the world for the next 100 years and to do that, we need to get to the role of the Federal Reserve and we need to get it right.

Americans deserve a new tax code for a new era of American prosperity.

This bill, the Sound Dollar Act, is all about looking forward about the role the Fed should play.

You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.

Novelists don't normally write about what's going on

I believe that the ability to laugh at oneself is fundamental to the resiliency of the human spirit.

Like I said...fine with me.

I wish my name started with a comma. That would be so dramatic.

It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.

And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

We're on tour to kind of explain why we do what we do, how its done and how we put it together.

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?

We will never get anywhere with our finances till we pass a law saying...every time we appropriate something, we...pass another bill...stating where the money is coming from.