Let individuals create real wealth, empower them, create something that they can leave for their children.
Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important. Without it we are lost in a world where all ideas, news, and information look the same. We cannot differentiate, we cannot prioritize, and we cannot make good choices.
Bureaucrats behave very differently than a private-sector manager because their motivations are different. Permanent bureaucrats, no matter how senior, worry about their next job.
People in New Hampshire know that I'll talk thoughtfully, substantively about any issue.
Shakespeare would never have gone far in today's politically correct world.
Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself.
The debt-ceiling vote isn't about what will be done in the future; it is about the integrity of America's commitment to support the bonds we issue. Elected officials have an obligation to maintain that integrity, regardless of whether they voted for the programs that required the borrowing in the first place.
The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.
Mitt Romney has made it clear that he believes that President Obama was born in the U.S.
Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified.
It's good to give seniors more choices and more options, let them choose a plan that's best for them and target assistance to the lowest income people.
We'll always have bureaucracies, but bureaucracies led by bureaucrats might be too much of a bad thing.
A candidate who tries to steer a path down the middle in an effort to 'win independents' runs the risk of convincing everyone that they have no core values. As much as - or more than - any other voters, independents want to see conviction and authenticity.
The principal role of the President of the United States is the security of the country and participating in trying to stabilize the world.
After everyone has had a chance to bluster, posture, and pontificate, we are left with one basic question: under any foreseeable circumstance, would it be in our national interest to default on our debt? The answer is unequivocally no.
Office holders are a self-selected group; you don't get elected if you don't put your name on the ballot. There are many people who would do a great job, but who would never think to run. Find them. Badger them. Get them elected. They might not thank you for it, but a lot of other people will.
Simply put, broadband voice is an interstate matter that must be dealt with through clear national standards.
President Obama has outsourced a major portion of the U.S. space program to the Russians. That's national policy. Taxpayer money. So let's stop playing games with this outsourcing distortion and talk about the fact that when we need is a president that knows how to manage big enterprise and create jobs.
As a boy, when I was bad, my mother would chew me out in Spanish. And since I was bad a lot, I learned a lot of Spanish!
I understand the process of politics and the game of television.
I'm an old man of 73, and I've been around a long time. If I don't know something by now, I probably never will.
I'm running for senator because it's time for a change.
If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long.
Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches.
Nothing panics politicians like $4 a gallon gas.
