Spending comes just as natural to liberals in Minnesota and the Minnesota legislature as bashing decency comes to the editorial board of our major metropolitan newspapers.

Nancy Pelosi is committed to her global warming fanaticism to the point where she has said she's just trying to save the planet. We all know that someone did that over 2,000 years ago, they saved the planet - we didn't need Nancy Pelosi to do that.

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

Hey, I took karate when I was 17 years old, I am dangerous.

I want to state unequivocally for the world, as well as for the markets, as well as for the American people: I have no doubt that we will not lose the full faith and credit of the United States.

I think if we give Glenn Beck the numbers, he can solve this [the national debt].

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.