If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.
How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?
The Republican platform specifically says we don’t believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.
You can send a clear message to the establishment.
The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.
You can not be a conservative if you’re going to keep promoting new programs that you’re not going to pay for.
You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
I call myself a constitutional conservative.
Inherent to socialism is the absence of choice. If I want to choose my own pretzels or books or iphones, they prevent me – they fine me, or imprison me. And those systems, not infrequently have historically, have developed into systems where there are pogroms.
In a free society, we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we’re civilized people, we publicly criticize that, and don’t belong to those groups, or don’t associate with those people.
Well, I think a handshake is something that honorable men do. Before we had contracts we had handshakes that expressed that we were making an arrangement that was based on our honor. And I don’t think I can shake the hand of someone who shows and lacks honor by attacking a man’s faith.
Roll back federal spending to 2008 levels.
I would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states.
Let’s means-test benefits – let’s means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
What most Americans don’t realize is there is an unholy alliance. They come together. There’s a secret handshake. We spend more money on everything. And we are not stronger nation if we go further into debt. We are not projecting power from bankruptcy court.
The vast majority of my time is traveling and talking about the issues. It isn’t really calling and asking for money.
I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.
I do not yet know if I will find a Romney presidency more acceptable on foreign policy. But I do know that I must oppose the most recent statements made by Mitt Romney in which he says he, as president, could take us to war unilaterally with Iran, without any approval from Congress.