Occupation: Former U.S. Representative Birth: August 20, 1935
I want to just obey the Constitution.The Constitution says only gold and silver can be legal tender..
While President Obama was starting and expanding unconstitutiona l wars overseas, Bradley Manning, whose actions have caused exactly zero deaths, was….
The Founders warned that a free society depends on a virtuous and moral people. The current crisis reflects that their concerns were justified..
Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms..
I think Israel should be treated as an independent nation and not a puppet of our state..
What you are inferring is, If we were to legalise heroin tomorrow everybody would use heroin. How many people here would start using heroin? I bet no….
Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces..
You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws..
My understanding is that espionage means giving secret or classified information to the enemy. Since Snowden shared information with the American peo….
Suicide terrorism stops when we stop intervening abroad..
Reject the phony Patients' Bill of Rights....We don't have to continue down the path of socialized medical care, especially in America where free mar….
I hope every person who reads or hears this will take the time to go back and read the Declaration of Independence. Only by recapturing the spirit of….
People should not be able to vote to take away the rights of others..
Failure of government programs prompts more determined effort, while the loss of liberty is ignored or rationalized away...whether is it is the war o….
First reason is, it's not authorized in the Constitution, it's an illegal institution. The second reason, it's an immoral institution, because we hav….
The federal government cannot maintain a budget surplus any more than an alcoholic can leave a fresh bottle of whiskey untouched in the cupboard..
If people won't spend any money, the government has this moral obligation to do it..
Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong..
You don't have a right to a house, you don't have a right to a job, you don't have a right to medical care..
Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we don't want happening to us. We endlessly bomb these cou….
The American people are sick and tired of Washington and the people who have been in charge have been passing all these bills and I've been voting no….