Obsessions Turn People Off.

I Run A Taxpayer Group - The Most Powerful Guy In D.c., Nonsense. Ok? There Are Buildings With Thousands Of People In Them, All Lobbying For More Spending And Higher Levels Of Spending And More Government Commitments. And There Are A Handful - A Handful Of Groups That Fight For Less Spending.

We Want [government] Down To The Size To Where It Would Fit In A Bathtub, And Then It Could Worry About What We Were Up To.

We Don't Need Someone Who Can Think. We Need Someone With Enough Digits To Hold A Pen.

Well, Certainly The Democrats Have Been Arguing To Raise The Capital Gains Tax On All Americans. Obama Says He Wants To Do That. That Would Slow Down Economic Growth. It's Not Necessarily Helpful To The Economy. Every Time We've Cut The Capital Gains Tax, The Economy Has Grown. Whenever We Raise The Capital Gains Tax, It's Been Damaged.

The Goal Is To Reduce The Size And Scope Of Government Spending, Not To Focus On The Deficit. The Deficit Is The Symptom Of The Disease.