Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.

• My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.
• Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.
• Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
• My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.
• Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.
• I'm not sure history has ended.
• There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.
• The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.
• It's very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative.
• People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.