We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.

South Carolina is a great place to be from.

I think it's very clear that the American people are frustrated with this move toward socialism. And so whether you're back or white, if you believe that the conservative construct is in the best interest of our future, than you too would be voting with Republicans, and if you had the opportunity to run you'd join us as well.

Certainly I feel like I'm the tip of the arrow at times because certainly the national media wants to talk about the fact that I'm a black Republican and some people think of that as zany that a black person would be a conservative but to me what is zany is any person black, white, red, brown or yellow not being a conservative.

We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.

We do not have a revenue problem in D.C. or this county. We have a prioritization problem. When you create the priorities you fund the priorities of the country and you stop spending money when you get to zero.

And the Tea Party represents many of us who believe that we are taxed enough already. We believe in free markets.