My mother told me if I work hard and I really believed in American principles and I believed in God, anything is possible. That's why I'm not anxious to give away American values and principles for the sake of political correctness.

I'd like to be remembered as someone who got others to recognize the potential that was within them.

Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.

Military action is never the first thing that you jump to. You always look at other possibilities, including economic sanctions, tightening the screws.

Always give your best and try to figure out how to do an even better job.

Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything. We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.

Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility and feels more like it's an arm of a political party. They can really take advantage of an uninformed populace.