your rhetoric never matches your actions.

A lot of folks think that if we lower tax rates, then the rich are just going to rip everybody off, that they are going to get away with murder.

But then we will have a debate about who should bear that burden. And our judgment is the top 2 percent of Americans should bear that burden through a higher effective tax rate.

this thing has been fact-check a million times.

You could not get one Republican on the other side to raise their hand and say, yes, I would be for some tax increase on the wealthiest 2 percent, 1 percent, .5 of the top 1 percent.

To think of this man, who they put the candles up and they burn the incense and have the big picture of Ronald Reagan, to think of him running in a Republican primary today, he would be behind Ron Paul--he would probably be out of the race…

I voted for that amendment that was in the committee. It was me and Heath Shuler were the only two.

If plan beats no plan, then why has the President once again decided to duck from the drivers of our debt?

The policies that this president, and in many instances, the Democrats passed, that stabilized the economy, made investments, the stimulus package, stabilized the economy.

I feel like I am living in an alternative reality here, because I just left the Armed Services Committee, in which Secretary Panetta, head of the Joint Chiefs, were presenting $500 billion worth of cuts to the military.

Give us a date when we would actually have a balanced budget, not a percent of GDP, but actually spend less in one year than we are taking in.