Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.

I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.

Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.

I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.

People aren't stupid. I mean, people remember in 1990, the unemployment rate was 10 percent. Now it's 4 _ percent. We've got 1/4 million jobs that we've created.

If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability economic, political and social.

The best preparation for work is not thinking about work, talking about work, or studying for work: it is work.

My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep.

Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.

Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea.

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

There is an opportunity cost in every action.

I feel most like myself... after I run - I go out for five miles every morning.

I forget the derivation of Boxing Day, but the feeling of wanting to invite your loved ones outside one at a time and punch them in the face, does that come into it somewhere?

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was Gotcha!

Unfortunately, computers are?stupid.Unlike human beings, computers possess the truly profound stupidity of the inanimate.

Put me in any city, I'll end up doing something with kids. That's the time of your life when it's pure fun.

Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning.

We're destroying our water supplies like you can't even imagine.

Life works best when we think of people as people.

Once on the streets of New York a woman called the police because her child spoke to me.