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Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them.

My instincts are conservative, but my inclinations are also libertarian.

Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.

I'd like to see a Republican Party that embraces a lot of the libertarian ideas.

Using a broad brushstroke, I think Libertarian - most of America are socially accepting and fiscally responsible. I'm in that category. I think, broadly speaking, that's a Libertarian. A Libertarian is going to be somebody who's really strong on civil liberties.

Libertarian principles are very simple, but you can't violate any of them and still call yourself Libertarian.

Philosophically, I believe that libertarianism - and the wider creed of sound individualism of which libertarianism is a part - must rest on absolutism and deny relativism.

I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm a radical free trader.

I would consider myself a rather staunch libertarian.