Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.

If congress refuses to obey its own rules. If congress refuses to pass a balanced budget. If congress refuses to read the Bills. Then I say, sweep the place clean, limit their terms, and send them HOME!

American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.

The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.

I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.

Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending.

Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.