The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it’s easier to win a libel suit.

I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who’s handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator.

I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We’ve come to take our government back.

You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they’re tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.

Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we’re unhappy and that we want things done differently.

The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it’s easier to win a libel suit.

What I’ve always said is that I’m opposed to institutional racism, and I would’ve, had I’ve been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.