Tim Griffin

“If you do what you've always done, you just get more of what you have always had. We've now got to dream big and act bold.”

“I had someone call me this morning telling me they had somebody who would only work a certain number of hours a week because if they worked too many hours a week then they couldn't get their government assistance. And that person has multiple cell phones, and gets them new every month with new minutes.”

“We can't be paying pensions to the next generation of federal workers when hardly anyone in the private sector gets them.”

“I don't want to shut down the government.”

“Whether it was turning around failing companies, rescuing the Olympics, or improving the business climate in Massachusetts, Mitt Romney has proven that he is ready to be president on Day One.”

“I believe our health care system is in drastic need of innovative, patient-centered reforms that encourage competition and increase consumer choice, not the bloated bureaucracy, tax increases, rationing, and mandates in the president's government takeover.”

“I'm not going to run for Senate and I'm not going to run for Governor. I'd like to put those rumors to rest.”

“The Europeans waited so long that they are impacting people who depend on their pensions. We are still early enough to fix it for the next generation. A few states have started scaling back their programs, while others have come hat in hand for billion-dollar federal bailouts.”

“The cell phone companies add to the problem. Every one they give out, they get money for from the federal government. So they have an incentive to give as many away as possible. And that's exactly what they're doing, and they're making a killing.”

“I respect Sen. Elliott and expect that she will be a strong opponent.”

“Instead of cutting waste, the Obama Administration is hurting workers. President Obama should stop protecting wasteful government spending.”

“I love my service; I'm going to finish my four years and be very proud of it.”

“A lot of what you have seen with third-party groups - like the Tea Party - these folks are conservative, and they are fed up with people in Washington who are not working for them but against them.”

“Should the federal government be giving people cellphones?”

“Historically, Congress hasn't paid much attention to the confines the Constitution establishes.”

“It's not fair that people who work, save, and pay for their cell phones are forced to fund the Lifeline program that pads the pockets of people like Carlos Slim, the foreign billionaire who has repeatedly been named the World's Richest Man.”

“People love to talk about the old bipartisanship. But it wasn't really bipartisanship. Yeah, they had a different label. But they're replaced now by people with basically the same views.”

“I don't care what party you belong to or what your background is. If you believe we are headed in the wrong direction, and believe there needs to be a check and balance on the President and Congress, then join my campaign.”

“Most private-sector folks don't get a pension.”

“I hear people saying we need this and we need that as a society, but is it really fair for the government - i.e. the taxpayers - to provide people with cell phones? I don't think so.”