I'm not allowed on FOX, and I'm not allowed on MSNBC.

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.

Shaving was invented to kill time before a date.

Being alone is almost always preferable to being with the wrong person.

All my life I have been happiest when the folks watching me said to each other, 'Look at the poor dope, wilya?

I know my face better than anyone else.

It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.

The time has come for justice at the ballot box, and justice in the courts, and justice in the legislative halls, and justice in the governor's office.

Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.

Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone. It's an unstable foundation.

What we will have attained when Neil Armstrong steps down upon the moon is a completely new step in the evolution of man.

If he is terrorising the terrorists, if he is terrorising America the terrorist [...] I am with him. Every Muslim should be a terrorist.