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" I believe in a strong national defense. But it's my belief that neither Iraq nor Afghanistan poses a threat to national security, and we shouldn't be involved in either area. "
Gary Johnson
Strong
Security
Believe
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" We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions. "
Gary Johnson
Financial
Balance
Decisions
" Most Americans are fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I'm advocating a balanced budget. But along with that, look, there should be gay marriage equality. A woman should have the right to choose. Let's not build a fence across the border. "
Gary Johnson
Gay
Look
Equality
" I don't personally have a sense that life starts at conception. I don't personally have that sense. "
Gary Johnson
Starts
Sense
Life
" I had my freedom, and I had my comfortable life, but I couldn't accept the fact that the politicians were making it increasingly difficult for my kids and millions of others to achieve their dreams as I had achieved mine. So, in 2012, I ran for president. "
Gary Johnson
Fact
Dreams
Politicians
" Any movement at all that reduces disease, that reduces overdoses, that reduces property crime, that reduces violent crime, is good. "
Gary Johnson
Movement
Good
Disease
" I love Costco. "
Gary Johnson
Love
Costco
I Love
" Where in the Constitution does it say that because we don't like a foreign country's leader, we should go in and topple the dictator? "
Gary Johnson
Country
Constitution
Say
" I agree that the two-party system stomps on any kind of competition. A great first step is to open the presidential debates to all qualified candidates, including the Libertarians. If that happens, the Libertarian party will experience unprecedented growth. "
Gary Johnson
Experience
Growth
Competition
" There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants. "
Gary Johnson
United States
You
Half
" In a zero corporate tax rate environment, if the private sector doesn't create tens of millions of jobs, then I don't know what it takes to create tens of millions of jobs. "
Gary Johnson
Tax
Know
Create
" One of the biggest concerns that many voters have with both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, but particularly with Ms. Clinton, is the sense that she uses government power to advance her personal and political interests. She is the very status quo. Americans want that changed. "
Gary Johnson
Want
Political
Power
" I think the government should be out of the marriage business and leave marriage to the churches. "
Gary Johnson
Business
Marriage
Government
" I don't believe there should be any restrictions when it comes to firearms. None. "
Gary Johnson
Believe
Any
Should
" We should be open to a discussion on keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill. I don't know how that manifests itself, but I'm looking to get elected president of the United States. I just want to let people know I have an open mind about how we might - how government might - interject itself in a lot of the problems we have. "
Gary Johnson
Government
Hands
Looking
" I think there are plenty of Libertarians that are socially conservative. "
Gary Johnson
Conservative
Think
Plenty
" Everyone else is parsing it in terms of lowering the corporate income tax. Eliminate it. It's not that big of a generator of income, and it's a double tax. Get rid of it, and you would have an explosion of hiring. "
Gary Johnson
Hiring
Big
Double
" Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom. "
Gary Johnson
Freedom
You
Time
" Balance the federal budget now, not 15 years from now, not 20 years from now, but now. And throw out the entire federal tax system, replace it with a fair tax, a consumption tax, that by all measurements is just that. It's fair. "
Gary Johnson
Fair
Balance
Tax
" I'd like to think I would have signed the Civil Rights bill and wouldn't have had any issues with it. "
Gary Johnson
Civil
Civil Rights
Like
" I hear that Donald Trump is watching the Olympics tonight. He's seeing how high the Mexican pole vaulters go. "
Gary Johnson
Mexican
Donald Trump
Seeing
" America is big enough to accommodate differences of opinion and practice on religious and social beliefs. As a nation and as a society, we must reject discrimination, forcefully and without asterisks. Most importantly, as president, I will zealously defend the Constitution of the United States and all of its amendments. "
Gary Johnson
Constitution
America
Society
" I think I view the system the same way that Ayn Rand views the system - that it really oppresses those that create, if you will, and tries to take away from those that produce and give to the non-producers. "
Gary Johnson
Create
Way
View
" Getting elected Governor of New Mexico, I really did enjoy that job. I thought I made a really big difference, and I think the same running for president of the United States - that I could make a really big, positive difference. "
Gary Johnson
Enjoy
Thought
Think
" If I could wave a magic wand, we would eliminate income tax; we would eliminate corporate tax. We would abolish the IRS, and we could replace all of it with one federal consumption tax. "
Gary Johnson
Income
Replace
Would
" As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it. "
Gary Johnson
Own
Doing
Change
" I'm one of the people that, when I hear Republicans talk about repealing Obamacare, I just want to roll my eyes. Republicans talk about reform to the healthcare, and they talk about selling insurance across state lines, and that's their solution? "
Gary Johnson
People
Healthcare
Eyes
" Imagine a libertarian president challenging Congress for meaningful immigration reform. "
Gary Johnson
Congress
Immigration
Meaningful
" I just think everything we do has an unintended consequence. We take out Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and Iraq was the check against Iran. "
Gary Johnson
Think
Check
Against
" With regard to Trump, he's saying some things that I just think are ridiculous and would disqualify any other candidate. "
Gary Johnson
Things
Ridiculous
Think
" My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not. "
Gary Johnson
Fear
Social
People