You can't legislate against stupidity, but we try to do it all the time.

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.

People say they walk on the shoulders of giants. True, but have you ever walked like one?

Politicians would only move beyond gestures once there was a critical mass of informed citizens.

Tragedy cannot take place around a type. Suffering is the most individualizing thing on earth.

I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.

Los Angeles is a city known as much for its sun as for its stars and its dirty air.

The spiritual battle, the loss of victory, is always in the thought-world.

Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the different histrionics, and the mystique that they carry.

And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer.

It is impossible to conceive of many without one.

If it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most practical thing in the world, but the first essential.