The career politicians in Washington had transformed a government "for the people" into a government for themselves and for special interests.

How is it that we have sodomy protected under that due process but prostitution unprotected? It's schizophrenic.

My relationship with Barack Obama isn't based on my political philosophy or his.

Tactics and strategies ought to be based on what the real world is, and we do not have the political power to do this. We're not about to shut the government down over the fact that we cannot, only controlling one house of Congress, tell the president that we're not going to fund any portion of [Obamacare]. Because we can't do that.

People that had the guts to put their loyalty to the Constitution ahead of their loyalty to their political party were citizen legislators.

The earmark favor factory needs to be boarded up and demolished, not turned over to new management that may or may not have a better eye for earmarks with 'merit.'

Careerism: the self-centered philosophy of governing to win the next election above all else.