I suggest to you that increasing the size of America's economic pie - which can be achieved only if everybody has a seat at the table - is the most important challenge facing our country today.

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.

When I think of how many people in this world have it worse than I do, I realize just how blessed I really am...... and I have to give thanks ...

It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward for taking time to do anything well.

Delete the negative accentuate the positive!

If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes.

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

I didnt really watch Dallas growing up, as I was a bit young and into other things, like sports.

I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strenght, happiness & misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own

Is it worth the aggravation to find yourself a job when there's nothing worth working for?

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Sometimes I wonder why the corporate world is seen as a god choice for those of us that will never rise above clerical work and general administration.