I think Gary Johnson was probably expressing frustration at a series of pop quizzes. He actually was more authoritative on what to do in Syria before the Aleppo moment than any of the other candidates. And I think he called it about right. There is too many different rebel groups there. And it`s a terribly confused situation.

Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that.

It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

We need a complete ban on soft money, which is sort of an enveloping problem, and a ceiling on the amount of money that can be spent on a given race.

It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.

My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep.