I need to be looking at what's important in North Carolina, and you better believe that's what I will do.

After much thought and prayer, I have come to my own personal conclusion that we shouldn't tell people who they can love or who they can marry.

For too long, Americans have fallen victim to financial abuses at the hands of predatory lenders that operate in the shadows.

People like Elizabeth Dole have given too much power to the special interests.

My faith guides my life.

I'm up for re-election in 2014, and yes I do plan to run for re-election.

Well, I believe in God. I taught Sunday school.

I am not in it for the success, I am in it for the victory...nothing less.

A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.

The minute I sat in front of a canvas I was happy. Because it was a world, and I could do what I liked in it.

I cannot go and tell women what to wear and what not to wear; you have to decide on your own.

Nothing prevents boredom like a good book.

I like guys who are understandable and good guys who are flawed.

Decision making is the specific executive task.

The end of a wedding reception is always so depressing. And only the bride and groom are spared, jetting off into the sunset while the rest of us wake up the next morning to just another day.

The revolutionary can have no friendship or attachment, except for those who have proved by their actions that they, like him, are dedicated to revolution.