When you live in Mexico, your houses all have names.

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.

According to the reality, I assume that we are not going to meet again. Yet, I do believe that we have met for a reason

Yet the same thing happens to the notions of morality. They are devised, at the start, as measures of expediency, and then given divine sanction in order to lend them authority.

When you smile, you don't only appear to be more likable and courteous, you appear to be more competent.

Talent comes with an individual name tag.

I decided what I wanted to do, not to make me look good, but to make me feel comfortable. Other presidents do it other ways.

I have a very real political awareness that at least on a transient basis the more drastic action taken by the president, the more popular it is.

Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world.

I didn't really want to kill myself, it just made me feel better to know I could if I wanted to.

How many processes are going on, to keep that teacup level in your grasp? There must be a hundred of them.