I will never stand for a national anthem again. I will turn my back and I will raise a fist.

I think that Minnesota is different because we are proving that tri-partisan government could work, that you do not need to necessarily be a Democrat or a Republican to be successful at governing.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people

I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.

The war on drugs is identical to the prohibition of alcohol: all you're doing is making criminals rich and powerful.

If I were an innocent individual, flown to a foreign country and held for several years and tortured, I'd become a terrorist, too. I'd go to war against the U.S.

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