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.

There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy.

So government acts as a safeguard of our property.

Gary Johnson and I have a good platform of having been fiscally conservative and we`re socially inclusive. And that`s different from both the other parties. The voters have a right to see that choice to be fiscally conservative and socially liberal. That doesn`t describe either of the other parties.

I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.

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.

In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.