"The national debt is equal to $48,700 for every American or $128,300 for every U.S. household. It is now equivalent to the size of our…
"A cashier earning $20,000 per year pays the same (Virginia) income tax rate as a hedge fund manager earning $20 million per year."
"Chesterfield has eliminated more positions from its general government operations than the Commonwealth has from the entire state government since (fiscal) 2009."
Says the D.C. city council passed a law banning lethal rat trapping.
Says proposal to boost teacher pension fund "puts no mandate on local government."
Gov. Bob McDonnell’s budget plan takes "money out of our classrooms to pave roads."
Says he’s proposed "the largest employer contribution to the Virginia Retirement System in history."
Small businesses "create 70 percent of the jobs in America."
"I was one of about a dozen (senators) who voted against the Bridge to Nowhere."
George Allen cast "the deciding vote" for the 2003 Bush tax cuts.
The U.S. economy "is three times as big as China's."
"(Stimulus money) went to critically important projects like studying ants in Africa."