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

The most basic principle to being a free American is the notion that we as individuals are responsible for our own lives and decisions

Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there.

Critics of NAFTA and CAFTA warned at the time that the agreements were actually a move toward ... an eventual merging of North America into a border-free area. Proponents of these agreements dismissed this as preposterous and conspiratorial. Now we see that the criticisms appear to be justified.

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

Once created, federal programs are nearly impossible to eliminate.

We have a lot of goodness in this country. And we should promote it, but never through the barrel of a gun. We should do it by setting good standards, motivating people and have them want to emulate us. But you can't enforce our goodness, like the neocons preach, with an armed force. It doesn't work.