Let it not be said that no one cared, that no one objected once it’s realized that our liberties and wealth are in jeopardy.

I believe that Israel is one of our most important friends in the world.

The constant refrain that bringing our troops home would demonstrate a lack of support for them must be one of the most amazing distortions ever foisted on the American public.

If somebody's in prison for non-violence, drug usage, and never committed a hard crime, they should be pardoned and let out.

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.

I never voted to spend one penny of Social Security money.

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.