I think everything needs to be on the table right now, every part of government.

Well, I think everything needs to be on the table right now, every part of government.

Clearly President Obama is not serious about cutting spending.

I voted no, not once, but twice, on the $700 billion bailout. I voted against every bailout that came after that. I voted against the stimulus bills.

I want my candidacy for the presidency of the United States to stand for a moment when we, the people, stand once again for the independence from a government that has gotten too big and spends too much and has taken away too much of our…

I'll tell you one thing that should be on the table, under Barack Obama, the last two years the number of federal limousines for bureaucrats has increased 73 percent in two years. I can't think of anything more reprehensible than seeing…

Out of control spending has consequences. The federal government continues to spend more money than what it takes in. And we're spending and yet again, spending that this country simply cannot afford. Cut the spending. Stopping the…

Clearly, President Obama is not serious about cutting spending.

What we need to do is today the United States has the second highest corporate tax rate in the world. I'm a former federal tax lawyer. I have seen the devastation. We've got to bring that tax rate down substantially so that we're among the…

I want to speak as someone who is far more eloquent than I. Someone who said -- just dealing with the issue of raising the debt sealing is a failure of leadership. And that person was then-Senator Barack Obama. He refused to raise the debt…

The executive director of Planned Parenthood in Illinois said they want to become the LensCrafter of big abortion in Illinois. They're the largest provider of abortion in the United States. And not only that, they are one of the largest…