As a former federal judge, I am cognizant of the legal issues. As governor, I am forced to deal with their ramifications.

Unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy - the cure is not more government spending, but helping businesses create jobs.

Nevada was hit hardest by the recession - highest unemployment, highest foreclosure rate, highest bankruptcy rate.

I know that many students take personal responsibility for their education and succeed as a result. I want them to know they are not alone - that Nevada's system can and will support them.

Racial profiling is illegal, and I do not support it.

We must remind Americans that the promise of opportunity remains unbroken - that every person in this great nation can succeed through hard work, courage and personal responsibility.

As governor, part of my job is to tell people things they don't like to hear.

I'm a strong supporter of states' rights to do what they need.

I am proud of my heritage and my family.

My first job was cleaning sheep pens.

Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.

We are no longer worried that children are missing school because of video games, though. We are worried that they are murdering their classmates because of video games.

Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well.

I think kids have got to learn how to work with what's happening, work with social, work with everything. To complain about how things aren't the way they used to be.

Teenagers are my life and my triumph. I'd be nowhere without them.

My mother used to play nothing but Billie Holiday.

God made food; the devil the cooks.

I was a metalhead and then I was into the rap and then I was a metalhead again.

Hey, look at this guy Kenny G. with his thing, walking up and down the aisles of the concert hall and running off the stage and playing the same time. It's old hat!

Find the leverage in the world so you can be truly lazy.

To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.