Go by your own conscience.

If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.

There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council.

Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.

Too often, they play to whatever group is the loudest down at City Hall, and they buy them off, essentially.

Politics is a contact sport.

The liberals are fighting so hard whenever President Bush appoints any federal judges.

The Senate needs 60 votes to pass anything. They have to compromise with liberal Democrats to spend more money. Even though arguably we have control of the Senate, we really don't.

You have to starve the Beast. That's one of the most important things about tax cuts. If you leave the money in Washington, it's going to be spent.

We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate.

There's so much mudslinging going on, and people get so turned off by that. It seems like neither party is aware of that. They're too concerned with blasting each other.

Believe in human beings - not all are good, but deep down all can be. But that doesn't mean you need to hang around crappy people and try to turn them around.

The more idealism proves futile, the more I respect idealists.

Your faith in yourself is all you will ever have. Don't let anyone take it away from you, ever.

Young people can be the catalyst for starting the effort to redefine what's important in America.

Mozart is expressing something that is more than human.

One of the benefits of success with new songs is that some of the other songs will get a chance to see the light of day whereas they wouldn't have before.

[T]here's a difference between confident leadership and empty-headed delusion or cheerleading. And this is a difference that many CEOs miss.

We don't have too much ritual in our life anymore. And these life symbols which people rely on to keep their feeling of well being, that life is not too bad after all are required more and more.

In love, 'tis no other than frantic desire for that which flies from us.

I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died.