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

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

What I have said is that I think the federal government and we as a society have come too far in trying to separate good organizations that perform good functions for people just based on the fact one has a religious association and one doesn't.

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

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.

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

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.