I was too practical to want to be a painter.

No principle ever filled anybody's milk bottle

I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.

Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.

Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.

The Constitution's pretty clear. The Federalist papers are pretty clear... They very specifically delegated the power to declare war to Congress. They wanted this to be a congressional decision; they did not want war to be engaged in by the executive without approval of Congress.