Andrew Yang in CNN N. H. Town Hall

On Drugs: Take billions from drug companies to fix opioid crisis

So the question is: How are you going to help your people actually get off of these drugs? First you have to get back all the blood money from Purdue Pharma and the other drug companies. Take all the billions of dollars away and say "This is going to be a down-payment on treatment."

The second thing you have to do is say to our people, "Look, this is not an individual failing; this is a plague that our government essentially helped happen. It's a plague of hyper-capitalism run amok. And if we catch you struggling with drugs, we are going to refer you to counseling and treatment and not to a prison cell."

On Environment: Eliminate the penny to speed up economy & save environment

YANG: I mean, they're relatively minor in the scheme of American life, but I'm going to use the penny as an example. Did you know it costs more than one cent to produce each penny? It's bad for the environment. We're spending $25 million on producing pennies more than they're worth. And who wants to get stuck behind that person in line? I don't. So getting rid of the pennies would actually help speed up our economy and save our environment.

Q: So what happens if you owe 16 cents?

YANG: I don't know. Other countries have done the same thing. Things get priced in fives and zeros. It'd be like 15 cents, 20 cents.

On Government Reform: Make Election Day a national holiday

YANG: We need to publicly finance elections. There are many, many things we should do to improve our democracy. Every Democrat believes we should overturn Citizens United that has allowed dark money into politics. The two tough truths around this, it requires a supermajority to overturn Citizens United, and corporate money ran our elections and our government before that ruling. It just became more extreme afterwards. But we should have ranked choice voting in this country so that people can actually vote the way they want and not be worried about "wasting their vote." We should have Election Day be a national holiday. We should automatically register new voters to make it easier for people to register to vote, instead of having these obstacles. And again, the best way out is for us to publicly finance these elections through a democracy dollars program so that anyone who wants to give to a candidate has 100 free dollars to do so.

On Gun Control: Personalize guns so only the owner can fire it

YANG: My younger son's school had active shooter drills. And he's four years old. I tried to find studies that said that active shooter drills make our kids safer, and I could not find any evidence that they do. I then tried to find evidence that the shooter drills make our kids anxious, stressed out and confused, and I found a whole stack.

Q: What about getting common-sense gun legislation passed?

YANG: I want to offer every gun owner in the country a complimentary personalization upgrade, where only they can fire the gun based upon their palm print and the size of their hand. This way, if the gun gets, let's say, taken by their kid, then it's useless, because they can't fire it. And if you are a gun owner, you actually, kind of, like this personalization upgrade because it makes your gun cooler. It's like a James Bond personalization. You can, like, show your friends and be like, "Only I can fire this." But it also makes us all safer.

On Technology: Preserve our data rights and our data dignity

YANG: This is one of the foremost issues of our time. Our data is getting sold and resold over and over again. And we're none the wiser, and we're not seeing a dime of it. We have to say, "that our data is ours." And if we choose to share it with a technology company, that is fine, but it is still ours, and we should a bill of rights around our data:

1. You have to tell us every time you do something with it. There needs to be an audit trail. You need to say, "look, I sold it to them; I resold it to them."
2. We need to share in any value you're receiving for our data. If you're going to get money from our data, then we deserve a cut.
3. We can change our preferences and turn this off whenever we want, because, again, it's our information, and just because we decided to share it on your platform for a certain period of time should not be some kind of lifelong commitment that we can't undo.

On War & Peace: Require Congress to declare war

YANG: A U.K. official said the purpose of having allies is so we can surprise our enemies, not each other. 75% of Americans want nothing to do with war with Iran. Our killing General Soleimani was a disproportionate step in a conflict between us and Iran that led us to the brink of war. So I would never have put us in that position in the first place. I would certainly never escalate conflicts based upon a provocative action that was not commensurate with what had happened before. I would tear up the AUMF and return the power to declare war back to Congress, where it belongs in our Constitution. It should be an act of Congress to declare war, and then invest in diplomacy and alliances around the world so that our allies know that we're not going to act abruptly or unilaterally without being in partnership with them.