You know, it doesn't take a genius in the private sector to know that you can save literally hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending if you can make it more responsive. That's the main job.

Bureaucracies tend to grow and to brag about their growth based on how many individuals they have and how much money they spend.

Some people want to amass a great amount of wealth and make a great looking obituary. I'm going to die with more money than is good to leave my son.

Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information.

The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.

I don't recall having a gun. I really don't. I don't think I ever pulled a gun on anyone in my life.

I was brought up in a household with sir and ma'am.

I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.

In America, we're trying to find a peaceful solution in the Middle East, and we're not going to be divided along any lines.

It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption.

I have an I.Q. of 100 plus a little bit. I have to work real hard to get things when I read.

I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.

Remember, America's greatness is based on creating wealth like the rest of the world has never known, and then, making sure it's shared throughout a middle class and even the underprivileged.