"Here we are forcing 320 million people to “get along.” But we’re not getting along. And we’re not going to get along. And we should just go our separate ways, and that will allow us to get along…

"We’ll get along better when we go our separate ways. It will be more peaceful when we’re not at each other’s throats trying to force our agenda. That’s why we need secession.

"And all we basically need for that is to make sure that the federal government doesn’t come in guns blazing and say, “Nope. You’re gonna fund us whether you like it or not.”

"I hope that in this day and age if there was popular support, they wouldn’t be able to do that.

"And there is something to suggest that they wouldn’t react violently…"