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Washington is a bubble, and there is nothing more powerful than the conservative grassroots when we are engaged and letting our voice be heard.

There are certainly days that we can convince ourselves in Washington that everybody's talking about one thing, and then I'll go home to my district and realize that everybody's actually talking about something different.

Ideas move rapidly when their time comes.

As conservatives, we know our principles, and we also know the best ideas do not always come from Washington.

Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously.

Too often in Washington special interests urge us to fight one another just because we belong to different parties. It is time for this to stop and for Washington to focus on what needs to be done.

This is the marketplace of political ideas. This is how America operates. It's a free market. It's free-wheeling. From the outside, it looks unpredictable. There's a circus-like free market.

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.