Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.

All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens.

But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration.

I created jobs and saved the taxpayers money on every road I built.

In Iowa, we take care of people. That's all I think I need to say.

That's the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow.

The solution really has to lie within the Iraqi people.

The current practice of extending U.S. citizenship to hundreds of thousands of 'anchor babies' must end because it creates a magnet for illegal immigration into our country. Now is the time to ensure that the laws in this country do not encourage law-breaking.

We should recognize that on the day that we are born, our glass is half full. In America your chance to fill your glass the rest of the way up is greater than it is anyplace else on this planet.