We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth the best that is in our fellow citizens. If we would summon the best from Americans, we must assume the best about them. If we don't believe in Americans, who will?

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

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

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.

We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources.

We believe that government works for the benefit of private life, and not the other way around.

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