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

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

The Heritage Foundation is the premier think tank, research organization. The premier idea group for the conservative movement.

Spending is an addiction.

I think people are confused about what the Tea Party is. I mean, they were a broad cross-section of Americans who came together concerned about our debt and our spending. And they're interested in constitutional, limited government. And so they're not one group of people. They're thousands of small groups all over the country.

Not federal government's job to do good deeds.

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