Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.

I believe in the separation of church and state. We all have our own religious beliefs. There are people out there who are atheists, who don't believe at all. . . . They are citizens of Minnesota, and I have to respect that.

Post-traumatic stress, that's why the soldiers need marijuana, is for their mental health. It makes them feel better so that they don't have the horrors of war in their mind all the time. And the government won't allow them to have it, because it's illegal - federally. It's absurd.

If you're going to accept freedom, there's the freedom to be stupid.

The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.

Our military doesn't defend our American people. Our military is the strong-arm muscle of corporations.

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