Gary Johnson Quotes

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.

We own? the Federal Reserve. There is this misconception that the Federal Reserve is some private entity. But if I might give an analogy here, we – U.S. taxpayers – own all the stock in the Federal Reserve.

Let’s end the unworkable marijuana prohibition and put our money where our mouth is. Let’s solve the problems like border crime. We can do it with pot legalization.

Immigration is a good thing. We should make that as easy as possible.

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.

Government Picking Winners and Losers = Corruption. When government tries to pick winners and losers, the inevitable consequence is corruption. Yes, corruption. If not in a legal sense, certainly in a moral sense

Too many Americans have lost faith in our approach to the war on drugs.

How simple life is. We buy a fish. We are fed. We sit close to each other, we talk and then we go to bed.

I was on NPR’s All Things Considered yesterday. The question was, ‘You’re on the torture rack, they’re going to kill you, who are you going to vote for? Mitt Romney, or Barack Obama? I said, ‘Look, I’ve climbed Mount Everest. I know how to do what it takes. Take this to the bank: I would rather die.’

The excitement right now is coming from the Liberty movement. And the Republicans want a piece of it.

90% of the problem with marijuana is prohibition related, not use related.

I’m finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I’m finding myself really angry over what’s happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I’m angry about cap and trade. And I’ve been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.