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" 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
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" 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
" We should make it as easy as possible to be able to get a legal work visa - not citizenship, not a green card. Just a work visa, with a background check and a Social Security card so that applicable taxes would get paid. "
Gary Johnson
Work
Easy
Green
" At the base of Ron Paul support, in my opinion, are people with brains. "
Gary Johnson
Paul
Brains
Opinion
" I think we should balance the federal budget tomorrow. I'm optimistic. I think Americans are optimistic. We went to the moon; we can balance the federal budget. "
Gary Johnson
Tomorrow
Think
Balance
" My issue with campaign finance is 100 percent disclosure. Wear a suit with patches from your big contributors. Depending on the size of the contribution, that's how big the patch should be. "
Gary Johnson
Suit
Big
Contribution
" Millennials - who will soon be a full one-third of American adults - may be especially ready to become engaged in politics with a candidate who wants to give them a government that will leave them alone and get its finances in order so that they don't inherit an economic collapse. "
Gary Johnson
Politics
Government
American
" Using a broad brushstroke, I think Libertarian - most of America are socially accepting and fiscally responsible. I'm in that category. I think, broadly speaking, that's a Libertarian. A Libertarian is going to be somebody who's really strong on civil liberties. "
Gary Johnson
Strong
America
Responsible
" 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
" The excitement right now is coming from the Liberty movement. And the Republicans want a piece of it. "
Gary Johnson
Liberty
Excitement
Right
" I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan. "
Gary Johnson
Paul
Fan
Absolutely
" 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
" If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower. "
Gary Johnson
College
Student Loans
Student
" I'm going to make the claim that I'm stronger than Obama when it comes to civil liberties, and I'm going to make the claim that I'm stronger than Romney when it comes to dollars and cents. "
Gary Johnson
Stronger
Claim
Civil Liberties
" My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders. "
Gary Johnson
Yes
Open
Mexico
" 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
" At the end of the day, Democrats go out and appeal to 30 percent of the far left; Republicans go out and appeal to 30 percent of the far right. Hey, there's a big middle ground here that's not represented. I think that, Bill Weld and myself, I think the Libertarian Party really occupies that ground. "
Gary Johnson
Day
Myself
End Of The Day
" I ran two campaigns for governor in a state that's 2-1 Democrat where I did not mention my opponent in print, radio, or television. I don't know if any other politician at a gubernatorial, congressional, or a senatorial level can make the claim. "
Gary Johnson
Opponent
Radio
Know
" I don't seek the counsel of God. God doesn't speak to me on what I should or shouldn't do. "
Gary Johnson
Seek
Counsel
Speak
" There's no way that a third party wins without being in the presidential debates. I think the vast majority of Americans are Libertarian; they just don't know it. "
Gary Johnson
Without
Party
Know
" 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 don't think you can climb Mount Everest with a broken leg, but I did break my leg prior to going to Mount Everest, so I was really climbing with a healing broken leg. I had the good fortune of climbing the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. That was a goal that I had. "
Gary Johnson
Healing
Good
Climb
" 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
" Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party. "
Gary Johnson
Party
Single
Think
" At the earliest age, when I saw a 'wet paint' sign, I had to touch the paint to see if it was wet. When I get stopped at the stoplight in the middle of the night, and there's just no cars coming, and the light is red, I go. I don't think I'm putting anyone in harm's way, and I'll just take the consequences. Because I'm a Libertarian. "
Gary Johnson
Night
Think
Light
" I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative. "
Gary Johnson
Choices
People
Stand
" Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom. "
Gary Johnson
Freedom
You
Time
" I had a 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' experience as governor. "
Gary Johnson
Mr
Washington
Experience
" The voice of the Republican party is up for grabs. It's a contest right now. "
Gary Johnson
Party
Up
Voice
" Let's abolish the IRS, let's eliminate income tax, let's eliminate corporate tax, let's balance the federal budget, and if we need a tax, it can be one federal consumption tax. "
Gary Johnson
Balance
Budget
Income
" Imagine a libertarian president ending impediments to free markets. "
Gary Johnson
President
Free
Ending