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.

Love is bigger than government.

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.

I'm an equal opportunity despiser.

When you elect chicken hawks, chicken hawks take you to war.

I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.

I believe in the separation of church and state. We all have our own religious beliefs. There are people out there who are atheists, who don't believe at all. . . . They are citizens of Minnesota, and I have to respect that.