I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior.

I think we've made the collection haystack so big, no one's ever getting through the haystack to find the needle. What we really need to do is isolate the haystack into a group of suspicious people and spend enormous resources looking at suspicious people, people who we have probable cause.

The government has investigated our program of collecting through a generalized fashion, everyone's phone records in the country. And they found that no terrorist case has been thwarted through this.

I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.

The president's rattling the saber and beating the drums may have an effect.

Perhaps it is time to be more careful what we ask government to do, and where we allow it to become part of our lives.

The vast majority of my time is traveling and talking about the issues. It isn't really calling and asking for money.