The American people, in their own families, they understand that you have to do that. You have to make the tough decisions. You have to get your budget. You have got to put it in order. And they expect their elected officials and their leaders to do likewise.

What people have to understand is 'Billboard' is a magazine. They're like elected officials - they work for us.

Women oftentimes are the ones making those economic decisions, sitting around the kitchen table and trying to figure out how to pay for rising gas prices or food prices or the health insurance costs. And I think that they see where they expect their leaders in Congress to also make those tough decisions.

If we do not make tough decisions now, future Americans will have to make even tougher ones.

You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones.

The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.