I've never understood the allure of putting your name on a building that was built with taxpayers' money.

I really do feel like I'm doing what the people that elected me in the first place wanted me to do. I'm not doing it in the same fashion they thought, or that I thought, when I ran for office in 2010. But I will be doing what they wanted me to do, and that is to try to fix Washington.

You can provide better services for less if you get the federal government out of the way.

Let's talk about after-school programs generally. They're supposed to be educational programs, right? And that's what they're supposed to do; they're supposed to help kids who can't - who don't get fed at home, get fed so that they do better at school. Guess what? There's no demonstrable evidence they're actually doing that.

IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?

What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract?

Proponents of efficiency standards argue that they save consumers and businesses money, reduce energy use, and reduce emissions. But families and businesses already understand how energy costs impact their lives and make decisions accordingly.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.