I am a fighter. I'm not just there to go along and get along.

Mitt Romney understands the private sector, he understands how profit is created, and he isn't embarrassed by it.

It would be fun to have someone in the White House who has worked in the private sector... and someone who understands that wealth creation is a good thing and they want more of it. Wealth is good.

If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and motivates me more than anything - just the concept of freedom, liberty, what it means.

It isn't that I was born thinking I had to be president. I'm getting a lot of encouragement to run from people across the country. I don't believe this is a rash decision.

If we want to kill Obamacare and we want to end socialized medicine, it must be done in the next election!

I'd like to give zero out capital gains tax and zero out the dividends tax, zero out alternative minimum tax, and zero out the death tax.

The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy.

The Republican Party is extremely pro-women.

Though I'm a congresswoman by title, a politician I've never been.

Certainly people make mistakes in their life. I'm no different, I've made mistakes. When people mess up, we forgive them. When I mess up, I ask for forgiveness.

I get how devastating high taxes are to job creation.

Everything I need to know, I learned in Iowa. I grew up here in Iowa.

When it comes to personnel issues, I act professionally and respectful of former employees. I just assume that's a two-way street. It's disappointing when it's not.

All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works in a fantasy world. It doesn't work in reality.

I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and work in the United States federal tax court. My husband and I raised five kids. We've raised 23 foster children. We've applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.

Many children in the foster care system are often in the midst of a family challenge.

Where do we say that a cell became a blade of grass, which became a starfish, which became a cat, which became a donkey, which became a human being? There's a real lack of evidence from change from actual species to a different type of species.

The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther.

A man can do a television interview and roll out of bed 15 minutes before; it's just not the same for a woman. A woman has to pay attention to her hair, makeup, clothing, and jewelry choices.

We must never forget what government is not. Government is not a philanthropic organization. Government is not the family. And government certainly is not the church.

I think it's important that people know what raising the debt ceiling is. It's Congress giving permission to the federal government to borrow more money that we don't have, and we borrow it for the purpose of spending it.

I think people recognize I'm very sincere in what I say.

Hey, I took karate when I was 17 years old; I am dangerous.