Some quotes from Michael Badnarik (2004 Llibertarian Candidate for President) on various issues, mostly taken from the convention debate. Folks might find them useful for Simon Jestering.

Free trade:

"NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty." --Michael Badnarik

Marriage:

"If you have a marriage license, what do you have permission to do now that you did not have permission to do before? Who gave you that permission, and where did they get the authority to give you that permission in the first place?" --Michael Badnarik

Censorship:

"I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. [...] Censor yourself." --Michael Badnarik

Military Draft:

"Imagine! People are not volunteering to go to foreign countries and die the way they used to! Imagine that!" --Michael Badnarik

Health Care:

"Congress doesn?t seem to know anything about the constitution, which is their job. How much less do they know about medicine? " --Michael Badnarik

Foreign Aid:

"People within the United States are free to do anything they want with their personal funds, but it is immoral to tax Arabs and send that Israel, or to tax the Jews and to send that to the Arabs." --Michael Badnarik

Energy:

"All you need to know about economics is the law of supply and demand. When the supply of something goes down, the price of it will go up. And as the price of gasoline goes up, the consumer at the pump is going to provide the incentive for finding alternative sources." --Michael Badnarik

Education:

"When the state or federal government controls the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens." --Michael Badnarik

Voting for a third party:

"If you were in prison and you had a 50% choice of lethal injection, a 45% chance of going to the electric chair and only a 5% chance of escape, are you likely to vote for lethal injection because that is your most likely outcome? If you continue to vote for the Democrats or the Republicans, you are committing political suicide." --Michael Badnarik