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

Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs are generated.

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

I don't want the United States to be in a global economy where our economic future is bound to that of Zimbabwe. We can't necessarily trust the decisions that are being made financially in other countries.

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.

We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right in his own eyes.

I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years.