I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.

You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to increase their political party.

I am for a government rigorously frugal and simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt; and not for a multiplication of officers and salaries merely to make partisans, and for increasing, by

It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.

I think people are confused about what the Tea Party is. I mean, they were a broad cross-section of Americans who came together concerned about our debt and our spending. And they're interested in constitutional, limited government. And so they're not one group of people. They're thousands of small groups all over the country.

The only thing that I could think of to do was to be an actress.