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" It is long overdue that we have a woman as a legitimate contender for the White House. But Hillary Clinton is the definition of the establishment so many are determined to reject. "
Gary Johnson
Determined
House
Long
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" It kind of scares me, the notion that we're going to be injecting ourselves into other countries' affairs when they're not posing a threat to our security. I wouldn't be telling Israel what to do. "
Gary Johnson
Security
Going
Other
" I don't smoke marijuana anymore. I don't drink. Marijuana is a handicap. So is alcohol. Alcohol is a terrible handicap. But in spite of being a handicap, it shouldn't be criminal. "
Gary Johnson
Alcohol
Terrible
Drink
" 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
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Roads
Money
" That's the first sign you know you're a Libertarian. You see the red light. You stop. You realize that there's not a car in sight. And you put your foot on the gas. "
Gary Johnson
Light
Car
Know
" New Mexico is the second Hollywood. No, it is, it is. They built all sorts of film studios. "
Gary Johnson
Hollywood
New
New Mexico
" Would this country be better off if no one drank? Yes, it would be, but we tried that; it doesn't work. I don't want to tell anybody that they can't have as many drinks as they want every single night of the week as long as they don't get behind the wheel of a car. "
Gary Johnson
Better
Work
Week
" 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
" Imagine a libertarian president challenging Congress for meaningful immigration reform. "
Gary Johnson
Congress
Immigration
Meaningful
" My next-door neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administration. "
Gary Johnson
Neighbor
Dogs
Two
" I don't think you'll ever hear me invoking God in anything I do. "
Gary Johnson
Hear
You
Think
" Religious beliefs have played a vital role in forming America's character as well as my own. I was raised as a Lutheran, and I believe in God and consider my faith and involvement with organized religion to be an important part of who I am. "
Gary Johnson
Faith
Character
I Am
" The retirement age needs to be raised. A portion of Social Security ought to be privatized, if not all. And there probably needs to be some means testing. It's a Ponzi scheme that's not sustainable. "
Gary Johnson
Age
Retirement
Security
" 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'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success. "
Gary Johnson
Understanding
Life
Success
" Immigration is a good thing. We should make that as easy as possible. "
Gary Johnson
Possible
Make
Immigration
" 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
" 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
" 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
" I'm not a stone-thrower when it comes to Hillary Clinton and her emails and her server. I don't think there has been criminal intent on Hillary Clinton's part. I don't see an indictment. "
Gary Johnson
Server
Think
Intent
" Part of being out there, campaigning, talking to people, is being able to read body language. "
Gary Johnson
Talking
People
Out
" 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
" 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 think a great starting point for a debate and discussion over a national consumption tax is, let's start with the Fair Tax, legislation that has been written up and, I think, signed up on by 80 congressmen and women. "
Gary Johnson
Tax
Think
Debate
" 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
" I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran - that he would get us out of ill-advised wars, that he would do something about health care costs, and that he would protect civil liberties. Like many Americans, I was disappointed. "
Gary Johnson
I Am
Protect
Care
" Given the divisiveness and pain that have accompanied several state religious freedom laws, I approach attempts at legislating religious exceptions to anti-discrimination laws with great sensitivity and care. "
Gary Johnson
Freedom
Laws
Care
" If China wants to spend $10 producing a product and sell it for a buck, who benefits from that? I think we do. I'm the free market guy. I think free markets work. "
Gary Johnson
China
Think
Work
" Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death. "
Gary Johnson
Death
End
People
" 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 supporters are people who believe in being fiscally responsible and socially accepting. I think most people are in that category. Speaking with a broad brushstroke, those are my supporters. "
Gary Johnson
Think
Believe
People