“It’s government’s job to respect and protect the rights of the individual. That vision is centrally important to the principle put forth by the Founding Fathers. If you don’t believe that, you shouldn’t be in Congress.”

Those are changes — and they are not what was envisioned by the Founding Fathers. You know, the Lord can cause the rain to fall on the just and the unjust alike.

If people want go-along, get-along politics, I am not their guy.

When I was a baby I had no teeth. I couldn’t get a job and I couldn’t eat meat.

Just to keep up with population growth, on average our economy needs to be adding about 125,000 jobs per month.

Our job is not to answer questions, its to ask the right questions…that get us to the right answer.

What I learned was to live in my heart and to do what will make my happy, and that was not selfishness. It didn’t matter what job I took, my mother’s answer was, “Do what will make you happy.”

I’ve found that when you roll up your sleeves and join people in their daily work, they tend to open up quite a bit and let you know what they really think about the issues facing our country and what kind of job they think the government is doing.

Don’t tell me how to do my job. I don’t come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.

It was a JOB; the video show was a JOB; you don’t tell the Aristocrats joke at 8 o’clock at night on network tv, it would be funny though. But those guys know I like dirty stuff, I like clean stuff too.

Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career.