A lot of people are in politics to make friends, too, instead of making positive change. Theyre worried about getting re-elected.

I take ownership of every mistake I've ever made.

Ive been blessed with a lot of great things in my life, and one of them was work ethic. And with work ethic, you can make anything happen.

It's been in the back of my head for five or six years, but more on the local level to get involved and try to create a better environment for my children and grandchildren.

When you look at my campaign, I don't go around sugarcoating things.

Artists create things that point us to beauty, to truth, to God.

A man making decisions on another man’s life should have already made up his mind about his own.

The operative assumption today is that someone, somewhere, has a better idea; and the operative compulsion is to find out who has that better idea, learn it, and put it into action-fast.

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.

The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.

I absolutely love what I do, and I want to dance for as long as I can and feel good about what I am putting out there on the stage.

What was it to love someone, what was love exactly, and why did it end or not end? Those were the real questions, and who could answer them?

Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best.

Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.

Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that challenges the left vision.