Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.

I think they should let gays in the military because we are the United States of America. And if a gay person wants to serve his or her country, why should they not be allowed...

It’s turned into a big bag of worms, … I still feel his biological father has every right to his son, and that transcends all politics.

I’m against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective.

Government is like physics, you know – for every action, there’s a reaction.

I never thought I’d be investigating global warming. I believe it’s real and that saving the planet is good.

You need to hunt something that can shoot back at you to really classify yourself as a hunter. You need to understand the feeling of what it’s like to go into the field and know...

Government is connected to everything we do.

We alone cannot prevent China from entering the WTO and trading with everybody else,

I speak my mind,

I think that when Americans go to vote, states should not list what party the candidates are affiliated with. That would require voters to actually think and get to know a candidate instead of voting...

It seems that elections today are more popularity than they are substantial issues.

Liberty is security. Freedom is security.

I don’t think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There’s always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.

My four years as governor, I never met with a lobbyist once, never. Not one lobbyist got in my office.

shows that I support freedom and that no one is pulling my strings.

Remember something, if you will, about voting: Voting is not a horse race, you’re not going there thinking “Gee, I gotta pick the winner so I can brag to my friends ‘Oh, I picked so-and-so...

Get every candidate to wear a NASCAR racing suit when they go debate; this way we can see how their sponsors really are.

The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That’s all. It doesn’t guarantee our rights to charity.

I don’t support communism. I don’t like that type of government.

Don’t vote for a Democrat or Republican, I have never voted for one in my life and I never will.

It’s convenient how everyone who supports waterboarding and torture, or “enhanced interrogation techniques” as they like to call it, have never experienced it themselves. Yet everyone who has, myself included, are firmly against it.

He can say what he wants, … I would challenge him to say how he or the national party helped any small party in any election.

If you’re smart enough to go to college, you should be smart and creative enough to pay for it.

I don’t oppose hunting in any way, shape or form. If that’s what you enjoy doing, you are free to do it.

The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.

Okay, fluoride in the water to help our teeth. Well, shouldn’t that be the job of your mom and dad? To teach you how to brush your teeth and use mouth wash? What do we...

I don’t take PAC money. I don’t take special interest money.

Opening their doors to our business practices, our culture, our democratic ideas will open their process.

The national Reform Party did nothing — zero — to get me elected,

You give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I’ll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.”(Larry King Live, May 11, 2009)

You can’t legislate morality.

I’m a warrior at heart; I’m an ex-Navy Seal. I’m too old to wage war anymore, and so now I wage it mentally. And so I find politics very stimulating; it’s war without guns.

Personally, I think Julian Assange is a hero.

I like surfing in Mexico a whole lot better than sitting with people in Washington that I don’t even like.

Once you privatize something, it becomes a for-profit business.

Going on projections, I think, is a very dangerous thing to do, because if the economy were to switch or change, those projections become meaningless, … Face The Nation.

If you’re patriotic, stand up for the Bill of Rights because once they strip your rights from you, you will pay hell to get them back. You will and we’re in the process of it...

Let’s remember, the CIA’s job is to go out and create wars.

I don’t believe we need the government’s help as much as some think we do. That belief sets me apart from the Democrats, since their way of dealing with everything is to tax and spend.

I live in Mexico in the wintertime, and I live off the grid down there.

I speak my mind. That’s who I am.

I asked him [Dalai Lama] the most important question that I think you could ask – if he had ever seen Caddy Shack.

go by projections because if I believed in projections, I wouldn’t be the governor of Minnesota today, because nobody projected me to win.

I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief.

Mexico has strict gun control. You cannot own a gun in Mexico.

Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.

In the last recession, 99 percent of us have lost wealth, but did you know that the top 1 percent increased their wealth five times? It tells you they create recessions so they get wealthier.

I never believe anything in the world of entertainment until it actually happens and the check clears the bank.

one bit how union jobs are going to leave America based on a trade relationship with China.