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.

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

I believe our health care system is in drastic need of innovative, patient-centered reforms that encourage competition and increase consumer choice, not the bloated bureaucracy, tax increases, rationing, and mandates in the president's government takeover.

I've always been a leader my whole life. I've always led. I didn't know how to do anything else.

I have met so many people who are negative, and it tells on their attitude towards life and towards everything.

Jamie Dimon is doing a great job; J.P. Morgan is a great institution.

Life isn't a tiptoe through the tulips.