Diesel fuel is too important to our farmers at harvest time and to the truckers delivering commerce across Nebraska to allow a bureaucratic hurdle to slow the delivery of fuel.

But, I don't want to assume that our tradition of excellence is a guarantee of future excellence.

I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.

I believe education is the great equalizer.

Economic growth is the most important initiative every governor faces.

I'd rather live in Nebraska than Washington.

The voters reward good performance. So, I'm going to go out and focus, if I become the governor, to do the very best job I can as governor. The rest of it will take care of itself.

Nebraskans are known for giving of themselves and that quality is part of what makes our state such a wonderful place to live, work and raise a family.

Nebraskans have very strong opinions, but we sit down around a table and we solve our problems.

Nothing is right or wrong. It's all an interpretation of which lens we are looking through.

Honey, when you say we can't communicate... what exactly do you mean?

Fiction is truth, even if it is not a fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live, but your heart will die.

.it's a long road when you're on your own, but there's no better teacher..

Believe what you wish, but prove what you can.

Only the bad man is alone.

We would like to believe that we are not in the business of surviving but in being good, and we do not like to admit to ourselves that we are good in order to survive.

I will not give up to sing until the people say it's enough. I hope it will be very late.

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.

I don't think I ever worry too much about what our target audience is, what we should be releasing. I just write naturally and organically and try to write from the heart.