Of the five rights listed in the First Amendment. - religion, speech, press, assembly, petition - the very first right protected is freely exercising our religion.

I ran for Congress not because I was having a mid-life crisis. I left the private sector because I saw a looming financial crisis that was coming to this country. It's unsustainable.

With America's role in the world, we have the ability to help protect the freedom of religion around the globe.

I am grateful for the men and women who pastor, who lead in churches across our country. Ultimately, their role of loving people and seeing hearts changed is probably the greatest calling.

Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become efficient, you don't run a business well, and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington.

People only believe what they discover for themselves. We need to have civil discussions, and look at what the facts and the truth are.

There's huge opportunities to continue to improve efficiency in the way the government operates and improve the way government provides services to its citizens.