I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.

Jobs are created in the private sector. Not by the president or the government unless they're government jobs.

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

You can't legislate against stupidity, but we try to do it all the time.

My attitude when I'm in Mexico is I wake up in the morning with nothing to do and I go to bed half done. I don't wear a watch. When I live down there, I do nothing according to time. I eat when I'm hungry and go to sleep when I'm tired.

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

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