[the downfall of our political system is the] buying and selling of politicians...bribery. In the private sector, you're arrested for it. In the public sector, it's the norm.

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

You need to hunt something that can shoot back at you to really classify yourself as a hunter. You need to understand the feeling of what it's like to go into the field and know your opposition can take you out.

I would give the people of America to their first opportunity to elect a president who doesn't belong to either party since George Washington.

We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people their freedom.

Once you privatize something, it becomes a for-profit business.

I ain't got time to bleed.