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

I think we need to make sure that we are putting Social Security on a sustainable path. It's absolutely something that the federal government is going to be involved in, in the future.

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.

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

The corporate income tax, in particular, is a tax that puts American corporations at a disadvantage.

I think that, you know, this is a different year than most years. We've got to tell the American people that we have to live with less. We have a $13.5 trillion debt. And the only way to do that is an honest campaign with honest people.

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