Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church. "
Gary Johnson
Christian
Values
Think
Related Quotes:
" I had a 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' experience as governor. "
Gary Johnson
Mr
Washington
Experience
" My next-door neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administration. "
Gary Johnson
Neighbor
Dogs
Two
" My opinion, having done this now for two cycles, is I think the national media really likes me and likes what I have to say. But, at the end of the day, 'He's a Libertarian,' and that denotes some loose screws, maybe. "
Gary Johnson
Me
Opinion
Media
" I was the Republican governor of the heavily Democratic state of New Mexico. I focused on good government, and I got it done - just like my running mate, former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld. The people of New Mexico reelected me by a comfortable margin. Ditto for Weld. "
Gary Johnson
People
New
Me
" I'm outraged that we're building roads, schools, and hospitals in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that we're doing it with borrowed money from China that we're paying interest on. I'm outraged. "
Gary Johnson
Building
Roads
Money
" I'm one of those who believe the bumper sticker: If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. The first people who are going to be in line to turn in their guns are law-abiding citizens. Criminals are going to be left with guns. "
Gary Johnson
You
Guns
Believe
" I don't want to close the door that if any of us were president of the United States that we would sit idly by and watch something like the Holocaust go down. I don't want to close the door on the United States involving themselves and putting a stop to that. Can we spend money on that? Yeah, I think so. "
Gary Johnson
Think
Door
Down
" By bringing about a rational drug policy, we'd be freeing up a lot of resources for real crime. Drug disputes would get played out with courts rather than with guns. So it would make this country a much better place overnight. "
Gary Johnson
Better
Country
Crime
" If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower. "
Gary Johnson
College
Student Loans
Student
" We are a nation of immigrants, and if the truth be known, don't we need a whole lot of immigrants to be buying homes and to drive our economy and to take jobs that U.S. citizens don't want? "
Gary Johnson
Truth
Need
Nation
" At the base of Ron Paul support, in my opinion, are people with brains. "
Gary Johnson
Paul
Brains
Opinion
" Our government should not be spying on the electronic communications of American citizens. Nor should our iPhones or Android devices be subject to unreasonable searches and seizures. "
Gary Johnson
Android
Citizens
American
" This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing marijuana were instead spent by law enforcement on protection from real crime, as opposed to victimless crime. "
Gary Johnson
Country
Crime
Law
" I would abolish the federal Department of Education and very quickly. People don't realize that the federal Department of Education gives each state 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends. But it comes with 15 cents worth of strings attached. "
Gary Johnson
Worth
Education
People
" I love Costco. "
Gary Johnson
Love
Costco
I Love
" 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
" The excitement right now is coming from the Liberty movement. And the Republicans want a piece of it. "
Gary Johnson
Liberty
Excitement
Right
" There was a big difference between Ron Paul and me when it came to the 'no.' His 'no' was philosophical. It was reasoned. It was right. My 'no' actually put a stop to legislation. It cut spending. Mine carried further than just no. "
Gary Johnson
Stop
Big
Me
" I never, ever, when I entered this process of running for president of the United States, thought I would be excluded from the debate table. Ever. What does two terms as governor get you? "
Gary Johnson
You
Thought
Process
" New Mexico is 2-to-1 Democrat. I got elected as a Republican. I think I did a great job of showing people that government doesn't have to spend money to make you happy, that government really needs to be providing a level playing field. "
Gary Johnson
People
Great
Happy
" I don't think you'll ever hear me invoking God in anything I do. "
Gary Johnson
Hear
You
Think
" It costs more money to put a person on death row than it does to lock them up for the rest of their lives because of attorney fees. "
Gary Johnson
Money
Person
Rest
" Having been governor of New Mexico, I know that legislation gets passed to benefit those who have money and influence. Then they buy more money and influence. That's one reason why, as governor, I vetoed more than 750 bills and thousands of line items. I did it to keep crony capitalism away from government. "
Gary Johnson
Money
Capitalism
Government
" If there's a clear genocide somewhere, don't we really want to positively impact that kind of a situation? Isn't that what we're all about? Isn't that what we've always been about? "
Gary Johnson
Impact
Kind
Want
" We need to understand the difference between freedom of religion - which is absolutely guaranteed and I would fervently defend. Sharia law is politics; it's not religion. If you say that a woman is voluntarily going to be of lesser value than a man, which is in sharia law, can we allow that? "
Gary Johnson
Woman
Politics
Religion
" New Mexico is the second Hollywood. No, it is, it is. They built all sorts of film studios. "
Gary Johnson
Hollywood
New
New Mexico
" I see the demographics increasing, and by that I mean the notion of social acceptance is growing, not decreasing; I think the notion of fiscal responsibility is growing, not decreasing. And Republicans seem to be moving further away from those two categories than closer. "
Gary Johnson
Think
Responsibility
Acceptance
" 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
" People are clamoring to hear good ideas as opposed to the lesser of two evils... Either the Democrats are going to win or the Republicans are going to win, but the losers are all of us out here as citizens that really do want meaningful change, and none of it's happening. There's no dialogue regarding meaningful change. "
Gary Johnson
Good
Ideas
People
" 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