There will always be room for improvement in any budget or economic policy, but we must have a budget.

And I know here that you will agree with me that standing up for America also means standing up for the God, who has so blessed our land.

The greatness of America and the solutions to her problems begin here with your people—not in Washington, D.C.

Your future is yours to shape, not just endure.

They did it the old-fashioned way—they earned it.

Would you not agree that we have strayed much too far from that noble beginning?

We must strive to balance the budget, of course, but not at the cost of our freedom.

The budget monster has been raging out of control.

Our greatness comes from the kind of character found in the people who made their homes in the hills and fields of Tennessee.

America has given us so much, but now it is she who needs us.

We will return government to the governed.

If we stand together and live up to these principles, we will not fail.