The solution is to change the cake recipe, and that's the way it is with government. We can start adopting policies that work and that encourage economic growth. If you got incentives for encouraging big business development but not small or medium business development, it's not going to work. It needs to work for all three.

I wasn't elected to avoid conflict. I was elected to represent the people of the 2nd District.

There are people who own cars and are getting free cell phones. A car helps one find a job, too. Where do you draw the line?

Working at the White House is an honor for any preacher's kid from Magnolia, but the issue is jobs.

As it is, the grotesque distortions of the global market mean that for every dollar the West dispatches to Africa in the form of aid, two dollars are clawed back through subsidies and tariff barriers: a monumental rip-off by the rich as they instruct the poor to accept 'free' trade or else.

I'm a real guy. I'm not money-laundering. I make money off music, and music is my source of income. It feels good. I'm not selling T-shirts, I'm not doing none of that other crap. Straight music.

The willingness to take risk is largely a function of wealth.

I personally think that people should spend more time and money on their marriages instead of weddings.