We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals, and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship.

Less government, less regulation, lower taxes.

I'm for tax reform, not tax increases.

We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals, and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship.

When I became 21, I decided that nobody learned anything about politics after the age of 21.

Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun.

Obama wants to take the individual small business tax to 44 percent, and the corporate rate - he says - down to 28 percent or whatever. But that really damages the small businesses. And it doesn't make us competitive. You got to take them both down to 20, because state and local corporate taxes are 5 percent.