A job for your family, a paycheck in your mailbox - they're the ultimate proof that your state is doing things right!

The politically correct crowd is tolerant of all viewpoints, except those they disagree with.

In my home State of Louisiana, several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, literally dozens across the entire State.

Finally, we should help developing nations like China and India curb their exponentially increasing consumption of oil and natural gas, which is driving world prices higher.

Unfortunately, we are finding the bureaucratic inefficiencies and red tape have a tendency to slow the efforts of individuals and communities working to rebuild.

Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.

We should increase our development of alternative fuels, taking advantage of renewable resources, like using corn and sugar to produce ethanol or soybeans to produce biodiesel.

America didn't create religious liberty. Religious liberty created America.

When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again.

We must stop being the stupid party.

Hillary Clinton, President Obama, they're trying to turn the American dream into the European nightmare. We need to rescue the country from socialism.

Where are you, oh heart, which I loved from the start? Did you ever arrive? How long must we stay apart?

There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity.

Unless you understand the history of a situation, you can't ever hope to solve problems.

We all talk about how much we hate lies. Yet we prefer, so often, to be lied to....because it allows us to dodge all those painful truths we'd rather not hear.

bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.

I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book. . . . I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right.

OK, Rule number 1: Unless you're served in a frosted glass, never come within 4 feet of my lips.

Yes, there's a lot of crazy stuff going on there, but it still comes down to those seven people. What are they going to do? How are they going to deal with everything?

I love working in Texas anywhere.

I found that there were these incredibly great people at doing certain things, and you couldn't replace one of these people with fifty average people.