We don't have the freedom of speech to talk about the weather. We have the first amendment so we can say some very controversial things.

In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.

You don't quit because you happen to be behind. You want to see how you do. And who knows? Maybe somebody will stumble.

The role of the federal government is to protect our liberties. That means they should protect our religious liberties to do what we want; our intellectual liberty, but it also should protect our right to do to our body what we want, you know, what we take into our bodies.

If people won't spend any money, the government has this moral obligation to do it.

If people are smokers, don't they have to pay more? Sometimes, you get your insurance cheaper if you are a nonsmoker. So, let the markets sort this out and insurance sort it out, but not having dictates by the government saying thou, you must do this and your behavior doesn't matter, you know?

Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic.