We saw the president of the United States engage American troops in a fourth conflict in a foreign land. This is historic.

Well, what I want them to know is, just like John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa, that's the kind of spirit that I have, too.

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

The Tea Party is an organic, spontaneous movement that rose up in opposition to to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda.

I pledge to you I'm not a talker. I'm a doer.

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

I think that the American people are curious about who a candidate is, what their background is, who their family is, what their faith experience has been, their education, their work experience. All of those are factors that voters look at because they want to take a measure of the individual.