I saw the government really using the excuse of a weak economy and a financial crisis to create more government and to push onto the American entrepreneurial society more and more restraints and government activity.

I'd like to think I'm a serious legislator and trying to get things done.

I told my staff that I'm so boring that I didn't even know I was boring.

Folks, do you agree with me that we cannot afford four more years of Barack Obama?

How does the weakness of the dollar affect your business?

I think what people are looking for right now is not the kind of pizzazz and pop that perhaps we thought we got in 2008. Certainly, President Obama offered that. What they want now is someone who can work closely with Congress and get things done.

When you tax capital gains income, you don't help the economy, you hurt the economy, which is why President Kennedy, President Reagan, President Clinton and President Bush all believed we should have a lower rate for capital gains.