"When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans."

"1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS."

"Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces."

"There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it."

"In government you carry each hope each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge."

"He who conquers his inner doubts has already won half the war. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Every season of life has its own unique blossom, if only we take care to notice. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country."