There's been a coup, have you heard? It's the CIA coup. The CIA runs everything, they run the military. They're the ones who are over there lobbing missiles and bombs on countries. ... And of course the CIA is every bit as secretive as the Federal Reserve. ... And yet think of the harm they have done since they were established [after] World War II. They are a government unto themselves. They're in businesses, in drug businesses, they take out dictators ... We need to take out the CIA.

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

It is a dangerous notion that we need a government to protect us from ourselves.

Liberty built civilization. It can rebuild civilization.

It’s not part of our Constitution to assume that we are the world’s policemen.

Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.

Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed.