Before 9/11, our defense policy was based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights; we will never be an aggressor.

I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations.

Consider this: The United States held its first presidential election in 1789. It marked the first peaceful transfer of executive power between parties in the fourth presidential election in 1801, and it took another 200 years' worth of presidential elections before the courts had to settle an election.

There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.

There are many people in Minnesota and the United States that don't think the word immigration means anything other than illegal immigration.

It is clear that United States immigration policy is badly in need of reform.