Anyone who knows anything about coming out knows that this is something you would never do for the support and a small check from a random organization.

It's one thing to answer to constituents. It's another thing to have professional disruptors show up at an event with the intent to derail so that you can't connect with your constituents.

I wasn't planning on becoming a politician. I was incredibly fulfilled in my role at PATH.

I think a lot of politicians want to focus on the things that make them qualified for the job; the truth is no one's ready for the job of member of Congress until you're there.

The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers.

Prime Minister Cameron says he wants to be the greenest government ever, but the definition of green is immature... I don't deny for a moment that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, but there are so many other factors that affect climate. It is more complicated than the computer models that we are using. What the truth is, nobody knows.

Either we start cutting the government and shrinking the size of government, or else we're going to face the political wrath of the American people.

We live in a democracy. We don't have to tell the people how to vote.