I don't have the support inside Washington or even inside my own party.

The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.

I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.

I can tell you if you look at the polls, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, they do not think we should increase the debt limit.

Ideas are more powerful than people.

I don't need to be asking for money for local museums and other projects just to make me look good back home.

I have been on shop floors. I have talked to a lot of the companies that create jobs in South Carolina and across the country. And what they want is less regulation.