"Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently."
"I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back."
"You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government."
"I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator."
"What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism."
"The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it's easier to win a libel suit."
"I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?"
"Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?"
"Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so."
"My first choice had always been my father. He's still my first pick. Now that the nominating process is over, tonight, I'm happy to announce that I'm going to be supporting Governor Romney."
"As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement."
"A Tea Party tidal wave is coming."
"The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action."
"I call myself a constitutional conservative."
"I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do."
"I'm the third of five children."
"I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid."
"We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry."
"We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times."
"You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean."
"I think my dad has helped me tremendously."
"I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17."
"In 1997, I, along with 200 other young ophthalmologists formed the National Board of Ophthalmology to protest the American Board of Ophthalmology's decision to grandfather in the older ophthalmologists and not require them to recertify."
"Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to."
"A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin."
