Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

The state has failed miserably here. The city has failed to carry out its responsibility. So, you are seeing a multiple of failures that is occurring at the state, federal and local levels,

I commend the Senate president and the speaker on their leadership, ... I look forward to making Melanie's bill, Melanie's law.

The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.

We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world.

Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.