According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax.

You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones

If we are going to save this country, if we are going to reestablish that belief in God, it's up to us. If we don't do it, who will?

The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only.

For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together.

We must now view our problems as opportunities - historic opportunities to change the failed systems of the past and do what's right for our future.

God looked down on this country because this country was founded on the rock and that rock was our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And when the storms came and the rains came, the rock, it did not move. But over the last 15 or 20 years, something began to erode.