In many respects, I guess I would say I was into Tea Party before there was a Tea Party.

I'm not pro-business. I'm pro-free enterprise.

From the takeover of Detroit and the failed stimulus packages to the enactment of Obamacare, the president and congressional Democrats chose to use Americas economic crisis as an excuse to expand government rather than as an opportunity to responsibly shrink it.

What I'd like to do is be able to work with Democrats to reform current entitlement programs for future generations, grandfathering all the grandparents.

The deficit is the symptom, but spending is the disease.

I'm one of the top 2 or 3 or 4 most conservative members in the House of Representatives when it comes to economics.

Listen, if the people in my district wanted to live in France, they'd move to France.