“The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free...” — Victor Mitchell Quote

The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.

My wife and I have very deep roots in Colorado, and we can't see ourselves living anywhere else.

We've got to stop pandering and start leading.

I want to stop piling people into prisons and stop branding people with a felony for a personal weakness.

I lived in New York until I was eleven years old, when my mother left my two older sisters and my father. My mother is 90 percent blind and deaf. She left and moved all the way to California. So I left my two older sisters and my father behind at the age of eleven and moved cross-country to take care of her.

Every individual who has worked for Blackwater in Iraq has previously served in the U.S. military or as a police officer. Many were highly decorated. And from the beginning, these individuals have been bound by detailed contracts that ensure intensive government direction and control.

My commitment to the American people is that I will remain focused on bringing true oversight and reform to our federal government and I will use every legislative maneuver in our toolbox, just as I did in Texas.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest dollar in its treasury. If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.