I think transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change.

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.

A man though carrying God may be of no worth to himself, to his family, to his nation and to the people around him.

Those who want to start a new journey, there are always new roads open for you

As an actor you want to just like, act as much as possible.

No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.

Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness.

Human reason is by nature architectonic.

As on many mornings in Marin, there is this sly strip of fog - water in it's most mystical incarnation - slithering over, around, and through the hills, making everything look ancient and unsolved.

Amazing grace! how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost but now am found, Was blind but now i see.

At the same time I really enjoy painting flesh.

I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously