The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.

If you're white and you're rich in the USA, if you get busted for drugs, you get a good attorney, and you in all likelihood serve no time. But if you're poor, black, Hispanic, or poor and white for that matter, you can get put in jail.

I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior.

You shouldn't have one opinion when you're running and another when you're president.

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.

I think there is some overreach in the sense that the EPA now says: if Congress doesn't pass greenhouse emissions regulations or testing, we'll simply do it on our own. I think that's an arrogance of a regulatory body run amok.

I would prefer the [USA] government to be the policeman and not the businessman.