There's nothing on this green earth that a liberal progressive fears more than a black American who wants a better life and a smaller government.

I spent 22 years in the United States military, so I'm a pretty strategic level thinker.

Of course we have compassion. We just don't believe the safety net should be used as a hammock.

But when I look at the fact that today is 1,000 days that we have not had a budget for the United States of America, you know, the House, one of the things we did, we passed a budget last year. But that is still sitting over there at the Senate. And so we have got to get this country back on track.

When you talk about raising that debt limit, the only way that I would ever support raising the debt limit if we also talk about budgetary controls on the federal government, capping its spending, how do we deal with the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid problems, because they cannot continue to run on auto-pilot.

For far too long we've allowed the other side to paint us as racist, as sexist, inhumane war mongers - well, today as a conservative black Republican and former soldier, I'm here to set that record straight.

If it's about the lives of my soldiers at stake, I'd go through hell with a gasoline can.