We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.

The president wasn't dragged anywhere, ... In reality, I think, it was his opposition which was dragged upstairs one step at a time from zero to this number that was very close to what the president proposed.

[Obama's reelection] would subject the country to what might be a fatal last dose of statism.

If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come

There is nothing inconsistent about having a conservative outlook and being vigorous.

Anything that strengthens the private sector vs. the state is protective of personal freedom.

I refer to the debt - the new red menace. This time consisting of ink.