Some members of Congress will claim that the federal government needs the power to monitor Americans in order to allow the government to operate more efficiently. I would remind my colleagues that, in a constitutional republic, the people are never asked to sacrifice their liberties to make the jobs of government officials easier.

Aggression and forced redistribution of wealth has nothing to do with the teachings of the world's great religions.

Have you noticed the debt is exploding? And it's not all because of Medicare.

Libertarians are incapable of being a racist, because racism is a collectivist idea.

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

I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.

No single person, including the President of the United States, should ever be given the power to make a medical decision for potentially millions of Americans. Freedom over one's physical person is the most basic freedom of all, and people in a free society should be sovereign over their own bodies. When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the state owns our bodies.