Disarmed citizens encourage crime and violence. Armed citizens encourage criminals to find a safer line of work.

You are where you are today because youve chosen to be there.

No one ever died from smoking marijuana, but millions of people have died by believing politicians.

Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.

If you ask the government to impose morality, then moral questions will be decided by whoever has the most political power.

The American heritage was one of individual liberty, personal responsibility and freedom from government ... Unfortunately ... that heritage has been lost. Americans no longer have the freedom to direct their own lives ... Today, it is the government that is free - free to do whatever it wants. There is no subject, no issue, no matter ... that is not subject to legislation.

I'm sorry that I can't snap my fingers and undo 50 years of bad American foreign policy.