I think something substantial will pass out of the House at some point during this term.

The IRS takes your money. Congress uses our money to arm our enemies. The IRS takes more of your money. Congress uses that money to fight the enemies Congress just armed.

I follow a set of principles; I follow the Constitution. And that's what I base my votes on. Limited government, economic freedom, and individual liberty.

As a legislator, I saw how effective I could be by being transparent, posting and explaining all of my votes.

In the state of Michigan, where I served in the state Legislature, there was a lot of shuffling of money between one year and the other to balance the budget.

Those of us who are pro-life should demand more from Congress. While we waste time on stuff like this, genuine legislation to protect life is ignored.

Legislation that names a specific private organization to defund (rather than all organizations that engage in a particular activity) is improper and arguably unconstitutional.

I haven't been in politics too long so that's a good thing.

Everyone knows about the substantive issues of concern, like federal health care, but very little is said about the process, the lack of accountability.

To Brian Ellis, you owe my family and this community and apology for a disgusting and despicable smear campaign.

If you're going to vote yes and change the law. You have to know what's in it. You can't depend on other people.

I sit under the weeping willow to watch the hanged man divine his truth.

If he didn’t want to talk about it, I wouldn’t mention anything. I wanted him to open it up for me, not me intruding and asking questions to him.

I've heard, "We live in a world of diminishing returns, when what we give we'll never get back." I say, "What we give returns to us in like-kind 400 times.

What was once thought can never be unthought.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.

You can't have thousands of people being shot in a city, in a country that I happen to be president of. Maybe it's OK if somebody else is president.

I love Kathy Griffin, I think she's brilliant, but for me, there is a line when I go OK, that's too much.

I was warned the camels can be nasty, especially the young ones. I was warned to give it a wide berth.

For I can raise no money by vile means. By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas