I have been on shop floors. I have talked to a lot of the companies that create jobs in South Carolina and across the country. And what they want is less regulation.

I think people are confused about what the Tea Party is. I mean, they were a broad cross-section of Americans who came together concerned about our debt and our spending. And they're interested in constitutional, limited government. And so they're not one group of people. They're thousands of small groups all over the country.

American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world.

I just want people to know that if they want to change the direction of the country, they can do it, but only if they're active, informed, and engaged.

Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.

We have this kind of revolving door, we don't have a permanent class of millionaires in America like a lot of other countries.