He does what he thinks God would do if God only knew the facts.

Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands.

The most critical factor subduing the demand for housing is that home ownership is no longer seen as the great, long-term buildup in equity value it once was.

These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off and security, on top of working fewer hours.

Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.

Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.

The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence of relying too heavily on borrowed money.

Fewer Americans are at work today than in April 2000, even though the population since then has grown by 31 million.

Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.

Never buy a saddle until you have met the horse.

Never have I experienced a serenity and sweetness of disposition as with my Chocolate Lab.

God is gracious to always give a warning before He sends judgment.

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

There is only one of the two that can reside in our hearts, GOD or ego. If GOD is in ego is out.

Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must submit.

I'm now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I've gotten out a lot of the old equipment.

A wasp in a wig is altogether beyond the appliances of art.

Reputation, like a face, is the symbol of its possessor and creator, and another can use it only as a mask.

Warren and I are friends, but working with him had been difficult.

Today, I will vote in support of the Marriage Protection Amendment. I shall do so because like President Bush, I strongly believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman.

And I thought, you know, I have to say that maybe the whacked out mother is my new favorite role, but I don't want to just do it and become Nurse Ratchett.