Eternal vigilance must be maintained to guard against those who seek to stifle ideas, establish a narrow orthodoxy, and divide our nation along arbitrary lines of race, ethnicity, and religious belief or non-belief.

When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other.

Government cannot be your parent.

I can unequivocally tell you I would not have sent my kid to the Iraq war.

There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.

A car is a 2,000 pound projectile that can go 100 miles an hour.

If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.