What we need to do is not only live within our means, but start paying down the deficit, and offer an opportunity at least for the next generation to get out.

Only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions.

If people are smokers, don't they have to pay more? Sometimes, you get your insurance cheaper if you are a nonsmoker. So, let the markets sort this out and insurance sort it out, but not having dictates by the government saying thou, you must do this and your behavior doesn't matter, you know?

I believe only a free society can ever be truly secure. The goal should be to make terrorists feel threatened, not the American people.

[Political] conventions lend themselves to pandering, as few politicians can resist the temptation to tell a national television audience how well they will run the country if elected. The problem is that government is not supposed to run the country - we're supposed to be free.

You know, freedom is a very popular idea, and young people love it, and they're open to ideas. And they like principled answers to our problems.

I'm all for raw milk. I think you should make your own choice on whether you drink raw milk or not.