During my first term in Congress, I signed a pledge that I will take no more earmarks and I've been faithful to that pledge.

I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law.

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.

This [health care reform] cannot pass. What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass.

It's important for us to be kind to other people and treat other people the way that we want to be treated.

I was in the Minnesota state Senate from 2000 until 2006. In 2006, I was urged to run for Congress, I did. And I've been here ever since.

The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther.