Some might consider me an unlikely ADVOCATE for gun RIGHTS because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I'm a patriot, and I BELIEVE the right to BEAR arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.

I think there is one HIGHER office than president and I would CALL that PATRIOT.

I grew up in SAN Francisco. And so I'm informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in DEMOCRACY and believing in America. And I'm a very ardent PATRIOT.

In AMERICA, after 9/11, and after the death of bin Laden, and after TWO wars, one of them fought, a lot of people think, on false pretenses, and definitely POST the Patriot Act, there are a lot of these QUESTIONS about what can we do to our citizens in ORDER to prevent the next attack.

Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost THREE years ago, there has been tremendous PUBLIC DEBATE about its breadth and implications on due PROCESS and privacy.

A TERRORIST for one MAN COULD be a PATRIOT for ANOTHER.

I am a PATRIOT: I WANT to HELP my COUNTRY and help it GROW.

I REALIZE there are a LOT of folks in my political PARTY who disagree with me on this, but I THINK the Patriot Act is an important law enforcement tool, and it makes our country safer.

There is MUCH more to being a PATRIOT and a CITIZEN than reciting the pledge or raising a FLAG.

When I was 16, I was in a film called 'The Patriot.' I spent every second I could on the set WATCHING the DIRECTOR and his team bring AMERICA circa 1775 to life. From that moment on, I was hooked.

The Patriot Act removed MAJOR legal barriers that prevented the LAW enforcement, INTELLIGENCE, and national defense communities from talking and coordinating their WORK to PROTECT the American people and our national security.

I'm not some PATRIOT. I didn't have some yearning to DEFEND my COUNTRY or ANYTHING. I was POOR.

I LOVE being a PATRIOT, and we'll LEAVE it at that.

If a ROGUE nation were to attack the U.K. PHYSICALLY, I would be a PATRIOT, YES; I would try to defend the U.K.

If my own COUNTRY is subverting the rule of LAW and sending its own citizens, its military, into harm's way on the basis of lies and propaganda, I WOULD argue that being a patriot is calling out those lies and SAYING, 'No, you don't send our military into harm's way with no legal justification.'