When I ran for governor of Minnesota, I only raised $300,000.

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.

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.

When you reach a certain age in life, time becomes more important than money, and I think that happens in your 50s.

I have an honorable discharge from the United States Navy. Hillary Clinton don't have one. Bill Clinton don't have one. Trump don't have one. Obama don't have one.

I don't take PAC money. I don't take special interest money.

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