I'm one of the top 2 or 3 or 4 most conservative members in the House of Representatives when it comes to economics.

What I'd like to do is be able to work with Democrats to reform current entitlement programs for future generations, grandfathering all the grandparents.

We should not be borrowing money from the Chinese to bail out the Greeks. What's coming next? Intergalactic bailouts?

Millions of Americans are struggling to pay their mortgages. They have a right to know whether members of Congress receive sweetheart deals in order to pay for theirs.

I'm not pro-business. I'm pro-free enterprise.

In many respects, I guess I would say I was into Tea Party before there was a Tea Party.

The deficit is the symptom, but spending is the disease.

Listen, if the people in my district wanted to live in France, they'd move to France.

It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.

I don't quite hear what you say, but I beg to differ entirely with you.

You can't fool television viewers with dancing girls and flashing lights

You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well.

You tell a kid he doesn't like to read, and he'll believe you

I never want to have that on my shoulders - I never want to be number one on the call sheet. That's a life that I don't want. I mean, I'm not ducking the responsibility.

I have never left another senator out to dry. Never.

For all the cynicism that the world contains, people are a little more open to those things that maybe are to do with returning you to some kind of simpler, happier state.

I think there's an invisible principle of living too. If we believe we're guided through every step of our lives, we are. It's a lovely sight, watching it work.

Maybe I just stay in relationships for too long and then they get really dramatic.