Fewer and fewer people are paying larger and larger percentage of the tax burden, as you know, almost half the people pay no income taxes at all. We're going to have more people in the wagon than we got pulling the wagon before long and that's not going to work. Those jobless numbers, you know, go hand-in-hand with those tax numbers.

The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations.

I'm not above acting like a seal every once in a while and waiting for the next fish, I just don't want to do it all the time.

And it's difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan would be so important to the PRC

John McCain was a prisoner of war.

I'm not particularly interested in running for president.

Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines.