“You can be strong without being involved in every single civil war around the world.”

I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government.

I do believe people ought to be left alone. I don’t care who you are or what you do at home or who your friends are or where you hang out, what kind of music you listen to, what you do in your home is your own business. That’s always been who I am. I am a leave me alone kind of guy.

I’m not someone who’s sort of still trying to figure out what I believe in.

If I have a weakness, it’s that I try to live by the rules. I try to live by the rules, no matter what they are, and I was brought up that way as a kid. Play by the rules.

How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?

I read all of Ayn Rand’s novels when I was 17.

We should be proud that so many want to come to America, that it is still seen as the land of opportunity. Let’s make it a land of legal work, not black-market jobs. Let’s make it a land of work, not welfare. Our land should be one of assimilation, not hiding in the shadows.

I would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states.

I say the phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business!

We have to think before we act.

The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.

Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.

There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now and I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts go unchallenged.

My great grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American Dream.

I’ve heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.

Congress shall pass no law that exempts themselves!

Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.

Distributed intelligence is the key to the advancement of human civilization. Dictatorships, communist countries, monarchies in the past all eventually collapsed because of their inefficiency in moving information.

The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.

The triumph of the industrial arts will advance the cause of civilization more rapidly than its warmest advocates could have hoped, and contribute to the permanent prosperity and strength of the country far more than the most splendid victories of successful war.

Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.

Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.

Where is everybody? Humans could theoretically colonize the galaxy in a million years or so, and if they could, astronauts from older civilizations could do the same. So why haven’t they come to Earth?

Man’s great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.