A car is a 2,000 pound projectile that can go 100 miles an hour.

If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.

I love my country, not my government.

When I ran for governor of Minnesota, I only raised $300,000.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people

Patriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by your parents.

If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.

A vote is "wasted" when someone fails to vote their conscience.

A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can't have honor if you're a liar. There is no honor in lying.

There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.

They had stopped shouting at each other and put their faith in legal counsel. With the result that how things could be made to look was what counted, not how they actually were.

University departments wanted to hire sober, rational researchers and teachers. You were allowed revelatory, apocalyptic experiences only after you had tenure.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

A vacation from school should not mean hunger for our children.

Anything mentionable is manageable.

The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.

What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.

If there's a certain song that I want to reach a certain person or certain type of person, that's when I play it for people.

so I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache.