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

In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment.

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.

While I think the earth is warming, I don't think that man-made causes are the primary factor.

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

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 wont use abortion as a litmus test with a pro-choice individual. Someone that is an activist on the abortion issue, I think, goes outside the pale, and I cannot support an activist on the abortion issue.