Occupation: Former U.S. Representative Birth: August 20, 1935
One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government..
In a free society, we are supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, we are in big trouble..
Prohibiting guns on campus made the Virginia Tech students less safe, not more..
The Fed has one power that is unique to it alone: it enables the creation of money out of thin air. Sometimes it makes vast new amounts. Sometimes it….
What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'.
To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution..
Mr. Speaker, I once again find myself compelled to vote against the annual budget resolution for a very simple reason: it makes government bigger..
Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the cons….
Ideas are the only things that count, and politicians are, for the most part, pretty much irrelevant..
Jury verdicts, basketball games, and even music are enough to set off black rage, it seems..
We are talking about an awesome power. It is the power to weave illusions that appear real as long as they last. That is the very core of the Fed's p….
It is dissent from government policies which defines the true Patriot.
The Fourth Amendment is clear; we should be secure in our persons, houses, papers, and effects, and all warrants must have probable cause. Today the ….
We don't have the freedom of speech to talk about the weather. We have the first amendment so we can say some very controversial things..
We need to take away the government's money power. The banking industry needs its welfare check ended. The dollar's soundness depends on its being un….
To condemn free-market capitalism because of anything going on today makes no sense. There is no evidence that capitalism exists today. We are deeply….
We have to restore confidence that the marketplace can deliver services as well as it can goods..
I am convinced that there are more threats to American liberty within the 10-mile radius of my office on Capitol Hill than there are on the rest of t….
The true patriot is motivated by a sense of responsibility and out of self-interest for himself, his family, and the future of his country to resist ….
It is a dangerous notion that we need a government to protect us from ourselves..
Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a w….