A vote is "wasted" when someone fails to vote their conscience.

Marijuana makes the best bio-diesel fuel on the planet, so it can make you energy. It grows 15 feet a summer, so it's a renewable resource. It makes better paper than wood does. It makes clothing. Medical-wise, it's stopping seizures, it's working for post-traumatic stress, they're even finding that it's curing cancer in certain cases. I mean, this is a remarkable plant. Now, for those that smoke it recreationally, to feel good, what's wrong with that? That's mental health.

I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective.

I will not be a Democrat or a Republican. They are the problem, not the solution. We need to abolish political parties in this country.

The war on drugs causes other supplemental crimes to take place because of the original illegality of it. But then again, that's the other reason that they're fighting it is the corporate prisons they have now. Because they've privatized all our prisons, corporations have to make money, and the only way they can make money is, I believe, the prisons have to be at least 80-90 percent full. That's why the United States - which is home of the brave, land of the free - we have more people in prison than any other country in the world.

When you live in Mexico, your houses all have names.

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.