When you grow up a fatherless son, in many ways you have to raise yourself. No one tells you what looks good on you, how to carry yourself, or provides the approval. Without a father, you grow up never knowing what you didn't have. There is no intimate model of who you want to become, so it's as if you're always guessing.

The most effective thing we can do is to limit spending.

The Freedom Caucus is very popular in my state.

Don't take risk, and don't get into debt.

We've got to change the way we do things.

Everybody who is a Republican wants to call themselves conservative even if they don't necessarily vote that way.

I'm pro-free enterprise.

People on the Left really want a single-payer system. They really want - so even the Left doesn't want Obamacare. They want single payer, and we want a market-driven, patient-central system.

Now that we have the Senate and the House fully controlled by Republicans, we need to be working together.

I'm a public servant. And I work for the American people.

Class warfare has never created a job.

I was elected to represent my district, not to predict the future.

One way or another, I want to be a positive force for the people of Louisiana and the United States of America in whatever way I can serve.

In this country, most people feel that being successful in their business is a virtue, not a vice, and once we begin to identify it as a vice, this country is going down.

We have too many in Washington who are all too willing to just go along with the status quo and not make any waves.

The first thing we need is for President Obama to finally enforce current immigration law and strengthen our borders. To take up any other agenda is bad policy for the American people and bad politics for Republicans.

Washington does not tax too little: it spends way too much.

Louisiana wants a leader that will take their values to D.C. and will fight for them without wavering.

Washington faces many challenges these days, and today's United States Senate needs more trusted conservatives going there to make decisions and choices that put the people first and not the business-as-usual crowd.

I can't think of anything right now that could be more damaging for our economy than passing and putting into effect and implementing Obamacare.

The polls are with us on this. They say the American people, more than anything, want to see spending cuts rather than tax increases.

We need to restore the Bush tax cuts or actually make them permanent.

The truth is that the banks that are really hurting under Dodd-Frank, really getting no relief, are the community banks.

While we must condemn any misuse of their authority, let's not forget that, by far, police are fulfilling their duty to protect and serve.