When we leave money in the hands of taxpayers, they buy things, they pay taxes, they grow government.

I don't believe in deadlines, I don't believe in telling the enemy when we're going to withdraw.

We've got to make sure our younger workers understand that as life expectancy increases, the retirement date for benefits increases also.

A consumption tax, a national sales tax makes some sense. But I think that if we move towards a Fair Tax, if we move towards a national sales tax, we have to make sure that we do away with the income tax.

If 'extreme' means that I am unwilling to go to Washington, D.C., and do what President Obama tells me, then so be it. But I am certainly not going to Washington, D.C. to represent the interests of D.C. I'm going there to represent Colorado values.

I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and, and other issues. They're concerned that when their kids graduate from college they have an economy and they have a future in this country and they, they have the same opportunity that we've had and our grandparents have had.

I am who I am. I'm going to speak my mind.