Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now.

Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil that we don't have to buy from a foreign source.

Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.

In the rush to become all things to all people, the federal government has lost sight of its core responsibilities. As a result we're stuck in this frustrating paradox where Washington actually neglects things it's clearly supposed to be doing, while interfering in other areas where they are neither welcome nor authorized.

I'll work every day to try to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your life as I can.

We don't have to apologize for American exceptionalism or western values.

That the Texas Legislature, that the Texas school boards, the Texas teachers, we collectively know best how to educate our children, rather than some bureaucrat in Washington.