When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.

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.

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.

To know God and to live is one and the same thing. God is life.

Here’s what you need to know most about leadership: Lead your own life first. The only thing in this world that will dependably happen from the top down is the digging of your grave.

What goes around comes back around.

It's very homely, this castle. It doesn't have huge ballrooms. I didn't want a cold, cavernous place.

Love to the love tear, even too, same evil, Attempt, without strength and armor, To reach the unreachable star.

I'm beginning to think that maybe everything that happens makes sense. Like, if it didn't make sense, how could it happen?

Pioneering basically amounts to finding new and more horrible ways to die

Everything you do sends a message about who you are and what you value.

God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made the decision to speak with distinction.

Fear could never make virtue.