“I don’t mind saying that I can work with conservatives on common causes. I don’t mind saying that I have met, gotten to know, and worked with some racists. I am exceedingly uncomfortable with people who are racist, sexist, religious bigots, anti-immigrant, xenophobic, or homophobic. But I can work while uncomfortable, whether it is sawing a tree branch while forty feet in the air, eating goat eyeball stew because I was in Yemen and it was ‘what’s for dinner,’ or finishing a writing project on time with a 54-hour ‘all nighter.’ I can be uncomfortable and get the job done. And if finding extremely bizarre people and working with them is the only way to obtain smaller government and more freedom, now, I’m willing to do it. But I won’t ever make the mistake of considering conservatives to be libertarians.” (10/09/08)