For every day the government is shut down, it should be that we don't have to pay income tax that day because they're not working.

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.

Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers - lovely, but dead.

I don't know how to hate

It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.

I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.

No story ever looks as bad as the story you've just bought; no story ever looks as good as the story the other fellow just bought.

Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven.

I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.

I'm perfectly capable of being stupid on my own.

I'm driving my old car until I'm on a first name basis with the low tow truck drivers!

Life is like a great jazz riff. You sense the end the very moment you were wanting it to go on forever.