The Federal Reserve and Congress have systematically taught the American people to trust the government and that caution in spending is harmful to the economy.

The federal war on drugs is a total failure... The federal government's going in there and overriding state laws... Why don't we handle the drugs like we handle alcohol? ... I fear the drug war because it undermines our civil liberties. It magnifies our problems on the borders. We've spent over the last 40 years a trillion dollars on this war and - believe me - the kids can still get the drugs. It just hasn't worked.

There was a time when a willingness to criticize one's own government when it was wrong was the very definition of patriotism.

It is not democracy to send in billions of dollars to push regime change overseas. It isn't democracy to send in the NGOs to re-write laws and the constitution in places like Ukraine. It is none of our business.

You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.

I would say that I'm pretty mainstream.

Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we don't want happening to us. We endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us?