I want our young people to believe as we did that there is no goal too high to reach if they are willing to work.

That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage.

If God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 apostles.

Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill?

White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills and factories? Frank Graham favors mingling of the races.

It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.

Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education.

If you want to call me a bigot, fine.

All I know is that D'Aubuisson is a free enterprise man and deeply religious.

It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative.

We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support.

This, she thought, was what love and desperation made you do: say things that were better left unsaid, give yourself away in a million little gestures, a thousand little changes of expression.

You have no right to kill others. Then how can you have a right to kill yourself?

Has any non-dipshit man ever used the word "ladies" not followed by the word "room"?

"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."

Proclaiming the gospel is not an activity in which we periodically and temporarily engage.

Life is unjust and this is what makes it so beautiful. Every day is a gift. Be brave and take hold of it.

I think you cannot be too complacent. I think that's dangerous and you cannot take anything for granted.

I had to perform at the White House for the president, That's always kind of a weird set to try to put together.

Higher education is a business that doesn’t know it’s going out of business.

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves