My four years as governor, I never met with a lobbyist once, never. Not one lobbyist got in my office.

Governments are run by people. People can be bad.

I'm a warrior at heart; I'm an ex-Navy Seal. I'm too old to wage war anymore, and so now I wage it mentally. And so I find politics very stimulating; it's war without guns.

The people need to understand that marijuana is an unbelievable plant that has huge medical - it's a medical plant, is the best way to describe it. It has huge benefits for us as people in many, many - so many different ways.

I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.

After Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, I was heartened to see him issue an Open Government Initiative on his first full day in office.

I believe that the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin are two of the greatest rock bands ever!