They tax when you earn a dollar, they tax you when you save it, they tax you when you invest it. If you earn a dividend, they tax it again, and if you're stupid enough to die, they steal up to half.

We will make it so that a Democrat cannot govern as a Democrat.

Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does those things, it is facilitating liberty. When it goes beyond those things, it becomes destructive to both human happiness and human liberty.

We want [government] down to the size to where it would fit in a bathtub, and then it could worry about what we were up to.

I read murder mysteries. I exercise 40 minutes a day. I watch videotapes while I exercise. I listen to audiotapes when I am in my car. And I try to stay in three different centuries.

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

I'm for tax reform, not tax increases.