We have a government that borrows $4 billion a day. We have a government that owes trillions of dollars in debt, half of that to foreigners, most of that to Chinese investors. I don't - that is extreme. Not only is it extreme. It's insane and it's unsustainable.
— Marco Rubio
We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again.
For many of us who were born and raised in this country, including me, it's sometimes easy to forget how special America really is.
Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent's sacrifices, and to the United States of America.
2010 is not just a choice between Republicans and Democrats. 2010 is not just a choice between liberals and conservatives. 2010 is a referendum on the very identity of our nation.
Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country.
There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government.
I feel bad for the kids that are in school right now and the young people all across America who don't realize that the grownups who are supposed to be running this country are the verge of leaving them as the first generation of Americans worse off than the generation before.
Let's stop talking about new taxes and start talking about creating new taxpayers, which basically means jobs.
The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the same.
These terrorists aren't trying to kill us because we offended them. They attack us because they want to impose their view of the world on as many people as they can, and America is standing in their way.
Never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today.
When was the last time you heard news accounts of a boatload of American refugees arrive on the shores of another country?
I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.
I traveled the state of Florida for two years campaigning. I have never met a job creator who told me that they were waiting for the next tax increase before they started growing their business. I've never met a single job creator who's ever said to me I can't wait until government raises taxes again so I can go out and create a job.
And here's the fact: the fact is it doesn't solve the problem. First of all, if you taxed these people at 100 percent, basically next year you said, 'Look, every penny you make next year the government's going to take it from you,' it still doesn't solve the debt.
This is the only country in the world where today's employee, is tomorrow's employer.
The U.S. Senate already has one Arlen Specter too many.
From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.
Even today with the problems that we face, who would you rather be? Which country would you trade places with?
I think there is a real misunderstanding about what the Tea Party movement is. The Tea Party movement is a sentiment in America that government is broken - both parties are to blame - and if we don't do something soon, this exceptional country will be lost, and it will become just like everybody else.
