I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.

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.

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.

Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.

The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.

If I’m perplexed by the fact that I’m constantly lost, maybe somewhere in my head I’ve determined that being lost serves a greater purpose than being found.

Wherever you are, be there with love.

Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.

The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.

Out of sight, out of mind' applies with even greater force to entertainers than to lovers.

Oh, I do get lonely, yes.

The headline is the 'ticket on the meat.' Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising.

Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.

On the road to truth, only those who do not know what tiredness and fear means reach the truth!