You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.

We don't we agree that litigation reform to lower the cost of healthcare would be a good starting point?

President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.

Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

The most important social welfare program in America is a job.

The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way.

The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.

We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility.

We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.

We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.

President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.

What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.

You can't trust anybody with power.