When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other.

Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can look at it in terms of how it might be useful.

You can have solid third party politics, but the problem is you're all lumped in to all the fringe groups. That's a stereotype that happens.

If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project.

I believe Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill John Kennedy. I believe that.

Don't vote for a Democrat or Republican, I have never voted for one in my life and I never will.

Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.

I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.

'The David Letterman Show' is a show of comedy.

I don't believe we need the government's help as much as some think we do. That belief sets me apart from the Democrats, since their way of dealing with everything is to tax and spend.

Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.

Jobs are created in the private sector. Not by the president or the government unless they're government jobs.

I think a person who is disabled should be disabled by no act of their own. If you become disabled because of alcoholism, drugs, or things of that nature, I do not think those conditions qualify someone to be called disabled. I think those conditions result from personal decisions.

If I were an innocent individual, flown to a foreign country and held for several years and tortured, I'd become a terrorist, too. I'd go to war against the U.S.

Wrestling is ballet with violence.

There's nothing glamorous about war at all.

Democrats are so spineless, so afraid to go against the tide... but dissension is the greatest form of patriotism.

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

Let's remember, the CIA's job is to go out and create wars.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.

The SuperPACs and the Citizens United ruling that gives corporations a voice in the political process are all bad news. They made it so you can now lie, and the politician being promoted on that lie will not be held responsible for it.

Liberty is security. Freedom is security.

I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth.

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

Let me say this: I'm paranoid of the government. They've lost my trust. They've lied to me so many times that I don't know what to believe from them anymore.

I don't oppose hunting in any way, shape or form. If that's what you enjoy doing, you are free to do it.

I don't take PAC money. I don't take special interest money.

My four years as governor, I never met with a lobbyist once, never. Not one lobbyist got in my office.

I don't support abortion. I could never participate in one. But I think it would be a mistake to make them illegal again.

Republicans are not a political party. It's a mental condition.

I'm tolerant of all religions... I don't care if someone wants to go out there and worship the bark on a tree.

If you work for the federal government, the average salary is $7,000 higher than the private sector. Something's wrong with that, when you're making more money working for the government than you can working in the private sector.

You give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.

If you start studying history closer, you'll find that most all wars are based on false flag operations to get people - to convince the people that they're under attack in some way so that they will support the wars.

Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.

If waterboarding's OK, why don't we let our police do it to suspects so we can learn what they know? We only seem to waterboard Muslims... Have we waterboarded anyone else?

If Jesus came back today, I think he'd throw up.

I never believe anything in the world of entertainment until it actually happens and the check clears the bank.

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

Monsanto can do anything they want to you, and put anything they want into your foods. There's nothing you can do about it.

There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is.

After Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, I was heartened to see him issue an Open Government Initiative on his first full day in office.

As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is really a local issue. It's the cops' job to tighten down on criminals.

Barack Obama's large contributor was Goldman Sachs - same thing on the Republican side. If you go to both their conventions, you see the same lobbyists paying off both sides so they win either way.

When you drink fluoridated water, you're drinking liquid Prozac. You drink enough of it, even though it's a small amount, drink it for decades and decades and what does Prozac do to you? It dumbs you down; it makes you docile.

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

Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.

Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.

I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.

I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.