I am a fighter. I'm not just there to go along and get along.

Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what has to change. Government has no conformity at all with the real world.

I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.

Let me tell you what the Tea Party stands for. It stands for the fact that we are taxed enough already.

I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this issue has gone on the ballot, the people have voted to retain the traditional definition of marriage as recently as California in 2008.

We're running out of rich people in this country.

It isn't that I was born thinking I had to be president. I'm getting a lot of encouragement to run from people across the country. I don't believe this is a rash decision.