I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.

I do believe people ought to be left alone. I don't care who you are or what you do at home or who your friends are or where you hang out, what kind of music you listen to, what you do in your home is your own business. That's always been who I am. I am a leave me alone kind of guy.

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

We need to get insurance out of the way and let the consumer interact with their doctor the way they did basically before World War II.

The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over!

There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now and I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts go unchallenged.

I think we need to get to the bottom of it. And I think there should be an investigation [of hackers attacks] because in order to defend ourselves against other adversarial countries, we have to protect our information.