I'm willing to fight, but I want to fight to win.

I don't view myself as a team manager, but a team captain. I'm part of the team, but everybody else as well.

Reagan was president and had Democrats control the House and Senate, and they reformed the tax code. Clinton was president, and he had Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole; they reformed welfare and balanced the budget.

How we fund transportation in this country is broken. You all pay a gasoline tax, right? Well, cars go farther, we get electric cars, and so on. And then we do more with the money than just build roads. We do bike lanes and mass transit.

Politically correct speech will not defeat the enemy.

Peace comes through strength, not through retreat.

I don't want to become Washington.

When gross public debt exceeds 90 percent of GDP, economic growth tends to decline considerably.

Fortunately, there is a project that will create jobs, provide direct investment in our economy, and move us closer to our longstanding goal of becoming energy independent: the Keystone XL pipeline.

Despite support from a majority of Americans, a majority of the House of Representatives, and a majority of the Senate, Keystone XL is stuck - stalled by special-interest politics.

Keystone will deliver 830,000 barrels of oil per day from Canada, North Dakota, and Montana to Gulf Coast refineries.

Every American, whether Democrat or Republican, agrees that job creation and affordable energy will be crucial to our economic turnaround.

For restaurants that have a minimum gratuity charge on large groups, the IRS will now count those tips as regular wages rather than traditional tips that we are all familiar with when we dine out. Ask any server, and they will tell you that this will directly affect their day-to-day lifestyle.

Servers make very little in regular wages and largely rely on tips to pay the bills and budget for weeks ahead.

Life in the restaurant business can provide a start in the working world for young people or a stable living for many Americans and their families.

Working at a restaurant is a tough gig.

It's not easy for the average family to ensure that their child receives a quality education. And the federal government is not making it any easier.

In Washington, we've seen enough tax hikes, government takeovers, bailouts, and other big government solutions under Speaker Pelosi's control.

I believe in a free market of ideas and not shying away from debate.

As conservatives, we know our principles, and we also know the best ideas do not always come from Washington.

Together, we can create something new, something bold, and something to act as a check and balance to Washington's out-of-touch agenda.

As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work.

Small businesses already struggle to compete with big businesses that enjoy the luxury of a tax code filled with corporate loopholes.

In addition to billions in new 'stimulus' spending that our country can't afford, the Geithner plan also contains billions in tax increases on small and family-owned businesses while protecting the tax preferences of wealthy, multinational corporations.