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

After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington to please stop spending money that we don't have. But instead of cutting, we saw an unprecedented explosion of government spending and debt. It was unlike anything we've ever seen before in the history of the country.

Certainly people make mistakes in their life. I'm no different, I've made mistakes. When people mess up, we forgive them. When I mess up, I ask for forgiveness.

My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation.

You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors. That's corruption to do that.

I have a very high opinion of Steve King and his ability, so I would encourage him to consider any position for higher office.

I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out under another, then under another Democrat president, Jimmy Carter. I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence.