Communities don't have rights. Only individuals in the community have rights.
– Michael Badnarik
Crime rates go down when offenders must compensate their victims and responsible citizens are allowed to carry concealed arms.
– Michael Badnarik
Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.
– Michael Badnarik
Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.
– Michael Badnarik
Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws.
– Michael Badnarik
Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it. Don't even think about taking my guns. My rights are not negotiable, and I am totally unwilling to compromise when it comes to the Second Amendment.
– Michael Badnarik
I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn't need a tax after that.
– Michael Badnarik
I do not interfere with your personal life domestically, and internationally, our military forces should not be interfering with foreign governments.
– Michael Badnarik
I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself.
– Michael Badnarik
I just want everyone to know that 20,000 gun laws in the United States are unconstitutional. They infringe on your right to protect your life, the lives of your loved ones, and your property.
– Michael Badnarik
If we really want liberty - if we really want liberty - then we need to go out and get it, we need to take it, because nobody is going to give it to us. And we need to do it now.
– Michael Badnarik
NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty.
– Michael Badnarik
On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.
– Michael Badnarik
The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves.
– Michael Badnarik
The government never does anything successfully.
– Michael Badnarik
The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in the sand? If you don't enforce the constitutional limitations on your government very soon, you are likely to find out what World War III will be like.
– Michael Badnarik
The reason that we can't find a relationship between the Constitution and the government is that there is none.
– Michael Badnarik
War doesn't need more participants. It needs fewer participants.
– Michael Badnarik
When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.