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.

Why does the U.S. care which flag will be hoisted on a small piece of land thousands of miles away?

In wartime, people willing to sacrifice liberty for security.

Unfortunately, the greater the humanitarian outreach, the greater the violence required to achieve it.

Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.

You don't have a right to a house, you don't have a right to a job, you don't have a right to medical care.

We're bankrupting our country and we have an empire that we're trying to defend which costs us $1 trillion a year. And the standard of living is going down today. It's going down and the middle class is hurting because of the monetary policy. When you destroy a currency, the middle class gets wiped out.