Virgil Goode

I wish more people would take a stand and stand up for the principles on which this country was founded.

The difference between Obama and Romney is the difference between tweedledum and tweedledee.

Every company that comes into the office for appropriations, the first thing I ask is how many jobs are you going to bring to the 5th District that are not already there.

You can't keep bringing people in from other countries, finding them jobs when Americans need jobs first.

That would be the biggest shake-up Washington ever had, if big money didn't dictate who the candidates were and who got elected.

It's time for grassroots citizens to have a president that's focused on them rather than the super PACs.

The voters of each Congressional district select the representative that they choose to represent them, and perhaps voters in all districts will now ask prospective candidates whether they will use the Bible, the Koran, or anything else.

The Founding Fathers had just four Cabinet departments and the postmaster general.

It's a very distinct difference between Romney and Obama and myself.

We really don't have much of a choice between Obama and Romney. Neither one of them are for Medicare or taking the steps that's needed for jobs in America.

If I'm fortunate enough to get the nomination of the Constitution Party, I will take as many votes from Obama as I would from the Republican nominee.

I'm for making sure Americans get jobs before other people do, and I'm not going to let jobs get outsourced overseas, like Romney let happen.

Romney says he loves immigration.

We shouldn't bring in foreign workers to do jobs that belong to U.S. citizens.

Obama gave temporary amnesty to well over 1 million illegal immigrants, and Romney said nothing.

Seniors are concerned about Medicare and Social Security. I advocated in Congress a separate and distinct lockbox fund for Social Security.

I would submit a balanced budget if elected president, and it would be painful.

I support our country being our country.

I don't want to have one currency for all North America.

I say if you are here illegally and are displaying and waving the Mexican flag, you should go back to Mexico and fly that flag there.

I think most people have a general idea of the Constitution, and somewhat of the Bill of Rights.

I can tell you, if I'm elected president, it won't be on the Koran, and it won't be on the Book of Mormon.

I talk to a lot of those voters who say, 'Just give us another choice.'

There's a huge cost that comes with illegal immigration.

I think citizenship should count for something... and it really counts for nothing.

If you are in this country illegally, stealing a job from an American citizen, I'm going to do all I can to put an American citizen in that job and not somebody that has crossed our border, come into the country and violated our laws.

What we have are - some of the big political donors behind the super PACs are big on promoting more of these trade agreements which cost us jobs - another reason that we need to end political action committees and have only individual donations with their donations being disclosed completely with names and addresses and other information.

We can have more jobs in small businesses if 'Obamacare' is eliminated.

We need to preserve jobs in America for American citizens first, and none of the other presidential candidates are - are addressing this issue. It's not politically correct, but it is one thing we could do right away to have jobs in America for American citizens first.

I just wish that more people would be welcoming to dogs and cats so they didn't have so many that got killed and had to be thrown in a landfill.

I do not love immigration. I think immigration has been harmful to the United States. I think it's brought more persons more dependent on the government into this country.

You shouldn't have political action committees.

The establishment will do all they can to block him, so grassroots America's going to have to turn out in droves for Mr. Trump.

I'm for a balanced budget now.

I'm a conservative, but with a focus on average people. For instance, I support Social Security and Medicare.

Taxes should be simple and fair... I'm not for increasing income taxes - if we even have an income tax.

The biggest problem with the deficit is programs that are unconstitutional and wasteful.

Success is measured differently by different people.

Government cannot ensure equal results because every individual differs.

Both Obama and Romney are just rolling in PAC money. Plus, they have the super PAC's behind them. They've got multi-millionaires and billionaires just buying 30-second ads. It gives each of them tremendous exposure.

You've just got to be honest and straightforward.

We should do what Obama and Romney won't do: Concentrate on Americans.

Further, the United States is moving ahead in the development of clean coal technology. There are vast coal reserves in our country, and when it is burned cleanly, coal can provide a resource to supply a large amount of our energy requirements.

We need to thank all of our troops, and particularly those for whom we can never express enough gratitude for they have given their lives so that all of us may be free and that our democracy can be a shining light for the rest of the world.

We have indeed been fortunate in this country. Over the last 200 some odd years since our Nation was founded, rarely have there been attacks upon our homeland.

The progress in Iraq has not been without cost.

In my case, I pay a standard premium to participate in the Federal Employees' Health Benefits Plan for my wife and myself out of each month's paycheck.

The retirement system that is in place for members of Congress and other federal workers features what is known as the Federal Employment Retirement Plan.

The salary of a member of Congress ends the day that he of she leaves office.

All of us who serve in the House of Representatives and the Senate pay into Social Security.