For far too long, America has been without a comprehensive energy plan, and today consumers are paying the price - literally - at the pump and in their heating bills.

Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy.

The PATRIOT Act brought down the wall separating intelligence agencies from law enforcement and other entities charged with protecting the Nation from terrorism.

The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.

Free market capitalism has done more for the soul of the human race than any other system. And it's created the highest standard of living.

By offering individuals ownership and control of their health care coverage, we return control to the patients; and that is exactly where it should be.

We have so many people retiring that we do not have enough people paying into the system to be able to provide the benefits for those collecting those benefits.