"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."

"You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected."

"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."

"1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS."

"The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem."

"The present moment is the only sanctuary where peace truly resides. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently."

"The Republicans need to work on registration and getting out their vote and their early voters and absentees. Grassroots stuff."