Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.

When you couple this militarization of law enforcement with an erosion of civil liberties and due process that allows the police to become judge and jury - national security letters, no-knock searches, broad general warrants, pre-conviction forfeiture - we begin to have a very serious problem on our hands.

If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.

I'll tell you what a weakness is of this country [the USA]: there are a lot of people who are sick and tired because Washington does not play by the same rules that the American people have to play by.

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

I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.

The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it's easier to win a libel suit.