I have a personal belief that you never have to give up liberty for security. You can still provide security without sacrificing our Bill of Rights.
Right now, nobody legalized paper money. Where did that come from.
I think Israel should be treated as an independent nation and not a puppet of our state.
As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn’t be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.
When things go badly, individuals look for scapegoats. I just do not believe that barbed-wire fences or guns on our border will solve any of our problems.
You don’t have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.
I would say nobody is perfect. I don’t know all the answers. I have don’t want to run people’s lives and run the world and run the economy. So, my qualifications are a little bit different.
To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution.
Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals.
Governments have nothing. They can’t create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another at the destruction of the principles of freedom, and we ought to challenge that concept.
I think the policy makers like the idea of being the boss. I mean people who like to boss other people around like to go into politics so they can become the boss.
Another term for preventive war is aggressive war – starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.
I would like to restore your right to drink raw milk anytime you like.
Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.
Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.
Well, I don’t think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there.
Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don’t do to other nations what we don’t want happening to us. We endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us?
We should have a strong president. Strong enough to resist the temptation of taking power that a president shouldn’t have.
Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.
Once you get the government involved in agriculture you’ll have nothing but problems and expenses.