We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute.

To me, there is no greater threat than our debt. I'm the only fiscal conservative on the stage because I'm willing to hold the line on all spending.

Any time someone tries to tell you that metadata is 'meaningless, don't worry, it's just who you call, it's just phone records, it's not a big deal' - realize we kill people based on metadata. So they must be pretty darn certain that they think they know something based on metadata.

It's curious that only in Washington can you spend $2 billion and claim that you're saving money.

I think we have a Tea Party mandate, and that Tea Party mandate is for good-government type of things, things like term limits, things like a balanced budget amendment, things like read the bills for goodness sakes, things like that maybe Congress should only pass legislation that they apply to themselves as well.

I would have never released the sanctions [for Iran] before there was consistent evidence of compliance.

I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington.