The GOP of old has grown old and moss covered.

I'm not accusing anybody of being [Hitler].

What is immoral for an individual to do, is immoral for a government to do

Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to.

Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer

Nobody ever was fired for 9/11. Instead of firing the people who didn't do a good job, we gave them medals. The guy who did a good job, I don't know what happened to him. And what we did was we decided we'd just collect everybody's information. That we'd sort of scrap the Bill of Rights.

Any time we give people the ability to use force, we have to be very careful. It's sort of like the people who spy on us - you've got to watch the watchers.