An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any force.

After years spent in Washington, I have become more aware than ever of the government's ineptness and the likelihood of its making mistakes. I no longer trust the U.S. government to invoke and carry out a death sentence under any conditions.

I want to be president mainly for what I don't want to do: I don't want to run your life, I don't want to run the economy, and I don't want to police the world.

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.

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

Don't steal - the government hates competition!

Once created, federal programs are nearly impossible to eliminate.