It’s not about electing the right people. It’s about a narrowing their responsibilities.

Freedom works, and government, when it grows beyond the barest minimum, keeps people poor.

What would you think of a person who earned $24,000 a year but spent $35,000? Suppose on top of that, he was already $170,000 in debt. You'd tell him to get his act together - stop spending so much or he'd destroy his family, impoverish his kids and wreck their future. Of course, no individual could live so irresponsibly for long. But tack on eight more zeroes to that budget and you have the checkbook for our out-of-control, big-spending federal government.

Living with the liberals, you get to hear their arguments, fight with them all the time. Keeps me alert.

Government is so big today that more than half the population gets a major part of its income from the state.

A handful of people who probably never even ran a small business actually think they can reinvent the health care system.

Government has no wealth of its own. Before it gives anything to anyone, it must take from those who produced it.