Select candidates by integrity of character, not promises.

First of all, no candidate is going to win by catering to the alleged Occupy Wall Street vote.

I just want people to know that if they want to change the direction of the country, they can do it, but only if they're active, informed, and engaged.

If we're able to stop Obama on [health care reform], it will be his Waterloo. It will break him and we will show that we can, along with the American people, begin to push those freedom solutions that work in every area of our society.

I'd like to see a Republican Party that embraces a lot of the libertarian ideas.

Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.

If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.