I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.

I'd pull my little brother on our motorcycle on an inner tube behind it. We would go fishing, we would hunt some, growing up.

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.

Christians are increasingly being punished by the government for acting on their sincerely held religious beliefs about marriage that are based on the standard of Scripture.

No one in my family had ever been in politics. My dad thought it was something that got in the way.

In 1983, the government imposed a ban on the import of gensets. I was out of business overnight. I was in trouble.

Having said that, I believe we must not compound the natural disaster of Katrina by creating a fiscal disaster in Congress - it is our duty to ensure that we reign in other government spending in any event, and especially in this time of national emergency.