My effectiveness is best placed in solving problems through federal solutions.

If succeeding generations of Americans don't understand the concepts of justice, individual rights, free enterprise, capitalism, sovereignty or national security, there can be no guarantee that those concepts - or others like them - will continue.

My effectiveness is best placed in solving problems through federal solutions.

From computers to information technology to airplanes, it has been America's unique blend of republican government and free-market capitalism that has allowed us to surpass all other nations in history.

Securing freedom has been a singular commitment of American presidents and patriots in and out of government for generations. But its perpetual continuation is not guaranteed.

If I can't affect some change in six years, maybe I'm in the wrong place.

I don't want anybody suspecting I am some sheep and part of the Washington D.C. establishment.