I often say that Arizonans should decide what's best for Arizona.

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.

Arizona now has one of the most innovative systems of financing school construction in the nation.

We're helping those children who cannot help themselves and giving a push to those who can. We've done it by working together for a common purpose. I see no reason to stop now.

The attack and our response show just how vital Arizona's military bases are to the defense of our country. We need to do everything we can to protect them.

We emerged from the events of September 11 more steadfast in our beliefs, more courageous in our actions and more determined to protect our values than ever before.

Safety on our highways has improved significantly, with the help of the Legislature and the media.

Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax credits giving parents and their children more school choices than ever before.

We improved the environment in which our children live, learn and play by decreasing crime and clamping down on abuse and violence in the home and on the streets.

Arizona faces many challenges ahead. None is more important or more pressing than passing a new state budget.

I also want to thank Arizona citizens for their efforts at conserving energy last summer.

Just for the record: happiness is not bullshit.

Blood was the mortar that cemented the kingdom

Now the thing is no longer a vision: it is paper.

If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre.

Adventure without risk is Disneyland.

I do feel like there are the pop stars of the world and then I'm like their dirty little sister, running around with sh*t on my face in combat boots because I can't walk in heels.

Get up and say Elijah Muhammad is wrong when he says white are the devil? They have to prove they are not the devil.

The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.