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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
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" I've always considered myself a Libertarian. While I was running for governor of New Mexico, the Republicans were totally inclusive of me; the party was open-armed, but they never thought I'd win. I delivered in a really big way; I exceeded their expectations and think I'm still highly regarded by the GOP in New Mexico. "
Gary Johnson
Thought
Think
Win
" 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
" At the base of Ron Paul support, in my opinion, are people with brains. "
Gary Johnson
Paul
Brains
Opinion
" Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight. "
Gary Johnson
Tomorrow
Better
Place
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" In New Mexico... I may have vetoed more legislation as governor of New Mexico than all the other governors in the country combined. "
Gary Johnson
Country
New Mexico
New
" I reject the insurance model. I think we should have a free-market approach to healthcare. "
Gary Johnson
Think
Model
Healthcare
" I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed. "
Gary Johnson
Reality
Innocent
Death Penalty
" 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
" Politicians shouldn't spend most of their time in office trying to get reelected. "
Gary Johnson
Trying
Office
Most
" I had a 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' experience as governor. "
Gary Johnson
Mr
Washington
Experience
" Marriage equality - I think that it's a constitutionally guaranteed right. Let's end the drug wars. Let's balance the federal budget, and that means reforming the entitlements - Medicaid, Medicare. "
Gary Johnson
Equality
End
Balance
" I don't think you'll ever hear me invoking God in anything I do. "
Gary Johnson
Hear
You
Think
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" I don't personally have a sense that life starts at conception. I don't personally have that sense. "
Gary Johnson
Starts
Sense
Life
" 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
" I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted. "
Gary Johnson
Good
Business
Freedom
" 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
" I think that the best that government can do for you and I as individuals is to empower you and I to make decisions that only you and I should make. "
Gary Johnson
Government
You
Think
" Am I not correct in saying that Iran has never voiced that they are developing a nuclear weapon, nor do they have any intention of using a nuclear weapon against the United States? That's never actually been voiced. I don't know where that has come from, but it hasn't been from Iran. "
Gary Johnson
Know
Intention
Against
" 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
" 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
" I was opposed to the government mandating that restaurants not allow people to smoke, believing it becomes the customer's choice whether they go in or not. But then, I thought, 'What about the employees? Aren't they hostage to a smoking environment, even if they don't smoke?' "
Gary Johnson
Government
Thought
People
" Tonight was a great opportunity to take on the political status quo that has given us trillion dollar deficits and put millions out of work. Our objective was to inject some common sense into the conversation among Republicans at a time when business-as-usual simply won't work. "
Gary Johnson
Work
Great
Dollar