The Tea Party doesn't like politicians.
We must now make clear to Lebanon that it will not benefit from U.S. assistance and support as long as it harbors this brutal terrorist and murder.
We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.
Sometimes people credit me for the Tea Party. It's actually the other way around.
I like to be a strategic policy guy.
If we're able to stop Obama on [health care reform], it will be his Waterloo. It will break him and we will show that we can, along with the American people, begin to push those freedom solutions that work in every area of our society.
I don't need to be asking for money for local museums and other projects just to make me look good back home.
I can tell you if you look at the polls, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, they do not think we should increase the debt limit.
I just want people to know that if they want to change the direction of the country, they can do it, but only if they're active, informed, and engaged.
From a policy standpoint, the Judeo-Christian principles are important.
Frankly, if independents and Democrats want to work with us on conservative ideas, I can do that better at Heritage than as a partisan inside.
What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator.
First of all, no candidate is going to win by catering to the alleged Occupy Wall Street vote.
The problem we've got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.
But my bill, the Drill Now Act, would actually expedite the whole process, let the Interior Department move ahead quicker... It would stop the radical environmental lawyers from delaying for years with frivolous lawsuits the leasing of the property.
A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.
I drive Fords, and I've driven American cars all my life, and I want to have a strong American manufacturing sector, especially in automobiles.
Motorists who want to save money on gas will demand and buy more fuel-efficient vehicles. We should not limit their freedom with more government regulations.
So, the point I'm making is, we are not going to cut spending in Washington if we think it's the job of every congressman and senators to pave local parking lots and build local sewer plants. These parochial interests are getting in the way of the national interests.
I went through two pretty dark years being fed up with the system and frustrated with my own party after two disastrous elections in 2006 and 2008.
I have been on shop floors. I have talked to a lot of the companies that create jobs in South Carolina and across the country. And what they want is less regulation.
I don't think we need to extend unemployment any further without paying for it, and without making some modifications such as turning it into a loan at some point. It then encourages people to go back to work.
If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.
As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable.
Not federal government's job to do good deeds.
