I mean people up here aren't stupid, I'm lower gene pool and I kind of sit in amazement at watching some of them because they are pretty damn smart.

Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals.

A safe, affordable and plentiful supply of food is a national security issue.

When we visited with legislative counsel, they told us that the only way to effectively accomplish what we were trying to do was to put the words in the legislation.

There are a lot of latchkey kids. I don't want to be sitting there when a guy blurts something out over the TV and have my daughters ask me what those words mean.

Clearly, high energy prices will have a large negative effect on the California economy and could possibly drag the rest of the nation into a recession.

I know how to make stuff happen, how to create wealth, create jobs, create investment.

What does it mean to have a Republican majority in the House? A lot of people think So what? They should think again.

No man ever was glorious, who was not laborious.

By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.

I would say I'm pretty much the exact same as the stereotypical American kid. I mean I'm really lazy, I play a lot of video games, I like girls. I like, you know, the violence and action type thing.

A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.

News people were holding me up as a symbol of defiance to the boycott and I couldn't even run.

I am always driven by the terror of humiliation.

In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it's supposed to sound like you - the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.

Whatever the situation at hand, thats what Im dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.

Once, I had to clip a jacket back to take a picture, and after they were done I forgot to remove the clip until someone noticed.

Your conscious life is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.