Today I'm A Candidate For The Office

I Was Criticized At Some Level Within The Republican Party By Those Who Say Government Should Not Be In The Economic Development Business At All. My Response Is That The Only Country I Know That Doesn't Have An Economic Development Plan Is Papa New Guinea.

If We Can't Find Cuts In The Defense Budget, We're Not Looking Carefully Enough.

Politics Is A Lot Of Serendipity. You're In The Right Place And The Right Time And You've Got The Right Message, And It Either Connects For You Or, Or It Doesn't.

With A Weak And Rotting Core, You Don't Have Much Of A Foreign Policy. You're Discounted At The Negotiating Table, Economically And Militarily. So When People Ask What's The Best Course Of Action For The U.s.-china Relationship, I Can Give You Ten Academic Responses. But The Reality Is We Need To Rebuild Our Core.

I Come From A Long Line Of Saloon Keepers And Proselytizers, And I Draw From Both Sides.