If somebody comes to a neighborhood coffee hour, or goes to a discussion group, and they have a discussion, I do think that people really walk away with a real understanding of the issues.
If you're running for office, it's tough to be an incumbent. It's tough to run out of Washington. It's better to be an outsider. And Establishment support doesn't help; it more likely hurts.
I'm not a policy and a strategy guy. I'm - you know, the military basically supports what the president wants, the decisions that he makes.
I think that is a noble goal that all of us should seek, to end wars and prevent wars as much as possible.
What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.
I do as much debugging as possible on the Mac, but I occasionally must debug problems in the PC world, which is significantly slower.
In an organic system you don't waste anything. We need to educate the consumer to accept a tiny blemish on an orange.
The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'
I think I have some interesting things to say and I don't think anybody out there is saying them.
All of us know today the value of communications satellites, weather satellites, resources satellites, etc.
It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth.
An asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90 percent of the species that are alive on Earth. These are big events. I mean, this is called extinction.
People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure that they probably said that about Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.
Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice.
For too long, the Democratic majority in Washington has failed to see the value in the sound model of working hard and living within your means.
Between floor votes, hearings and meetings, a typical week in Washington is about 70 hours. And back in the district, it's about 60 hours, a lot of which is spent with constituents.
The reality is that during the Reagan years, for instance, we doubled the amount of revenue that we were sending to Washington, D.C. after the tax cuts took effect.
The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his Farewell Address.
General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York.
