The only way we will ever reduce the debt and balance the budget is if America beats Washington and tea party activists take over this process.

Sometimes you have to beat the Republicans before you beat the Democrats.

A legislative entrepreneur...doesn't just believe the right things. He's out there trying to make a good idea legislatively viable.

Social awkwardness is not a sin, in defense of liberty.

One in a while, you discover a presidential candidate who has the potential to change the political conversation, to elevate key issues in voters' minds, and disrupt and transform a tired Republican brand. Once in a lifetime, maybe, you will have an opportunity to support a transformative candidate who can do all of these things, and win.

Throughout history, ideas need patrons.

Let us be clear about one thing: The tea party movement is not seeking a junior partnership with the Republican Party, but a hostile takeover of it.