I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if they rarely talked about them.

I am convinced that I do not want to give up more power to the White House, whether it's George Bush or Barack Obama. And I'm going to fight as hard as I can against President Obama on these earmarks and my Republican colleagues who hate to vote for them, but love to get them.

They say you can never step in the same river twice. New water flows in, replacing the old and continually renewing the river. The Senate is the same.

We all know if we change the bill, it's gone.

Obama a ‘light-skinned’ African-American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.

The modern day anarchists known as the Tea Party, they believe in no government.

There is no entity in the world that controls our lives more than the Federal Reserve System