As long as we live beyond our means, we are destined to live beneath our means.

There is but one special interest that we should be working for, and that would solve just about all of our problems, and that is our liberty.

I want to just obey the Constitution.The Constitution says only gold and silver can be legal tender.

I'm convinced that you never have to give up liberties to be safe. I think you're less safe when you give up your liberties.

Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks three days after rioting began. ... What if the checks had never arrived? No doubt the blacks would have fully privatized the welfare state through continued looting. But they were paid off and the violence subsided.

I think a submarine is a very worthwhile weapon. I believe we can defend ourselves with submarines and all our troops back at home. This whole idea that we have to be in 130 countries and 900 bases... is an old-fashioned idea.

We in the Congress have a moral and constitutional obligation to protect the value of the dollar and to understand why it is so important to the economy that a central bank not be given the unbelievable power of inflating a currency at will and pretending that it knows how to fine-tune an economy through this counterfeit system of money.