Deprivation sometimes can be one of the most marvelous teachers.

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

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.

I would like to see the lack of demonization for those of us who stand on sincerely held religious beliefs. It's overdue. That's where you see the demonization of people who stand on their beliefs.

People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.

I've learned the hard way at the national level that any erroneous statement will very quickly be magnified. So, as someone who talks for a living, I've learned to check, double-check and triple-check my sources.

We must never forget what government is not. Government is not a philanthropic organization. Government is not the family. And government certainly is not the church.