The Founders warned that a free society depends on a virtuous and moral people. The current crisis reflects that their concerns were justified.

What if the American people woke up and understood that the official reasons for going to war are almost always based on lies and promoted by war propaganda in order to serve special interests?

There's been a coup, have you heard? It's the CIA coup. The CIA runs everything, they run the military. They're the ones who are over there lobbing missiles and bombs on countries. ... And of course the CIA is every bit as secretive as the Federal Reserve. ... And yet think of the harm they have done since they were established [after] World War II. They are a government unto themselves. They're in businesses, in drug businesses, they take out dictators ... We need to take out the CIA.

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

I want to just obey the Constitution.The Constitution says only gold and silver can be legal tender.

It's not like I'm just trying to win and get elected. I'm trying to change the course of history.

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.