My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Today neither of our two parties maintains a meaningful commitment to the principle of States' Rights. The 10th Amendment is not a 'general assumption' but a rule of law. States rights mean that states have a right to act or not to act, as they see fit, in areas reserved to them.

A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.

To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.

I've played everything - baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That's why I can't walk.

By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.