Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can look at it in terms of how it might be useful.

A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can't have honor if you're a liar. There is no honor in lying.

I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.

If waterboarding's OK, why don't we let our police do it to suspects so we can learn what they know? We only seem to waterboard Muslims... Have we waterboarded anyone else?

I never thought I'd be investigating global warming. I believe it's real and that saving the planet is good.

Wrestling is ballet with violence.

My children were attacked by the Minnesota media when I was governor.