For every day the government is shut down, it should be that we don't have to pay income tax that day because they're not working.

Barack Obama's large contributor was Goldman Sachs - same thing on the Republican side. If you go to both their conventions, you see the same lobbyists paying off both sides so they win either way.

I like surfing in Mexico a whole lot better than sitting with people in Washington that I don't even like.

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.

Love is bigger than government.

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

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