I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.

Some people say that watching pay freezes in the government is like watching water freeze. It expands.

My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.

Remember, America's greatness is based on creating wealth like the rest of the world has never known, and then, making sure it's shared throughout a middle class and even the underprivileged.

It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption.

You can call me a pain. I'll accept that as a compliment.

The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.