If I were to run for president, it's because I believe in our country.

The politically correct crowd is tolerant of all viewpoints, except those they disagree with.

In my home State of Louisiana, several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, literally dozens across the entire State.

Finally, we should help developing nations like China and India curb their exponentially increasing consumption of oil and natural gas, which is driving world prices higher.

Unfortunately, we are finding the bureaucratic inefficiencies and red tape have a tendency to slow the efforts of individuals and communities working to rebuild.

Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.

We should increase our development of alternative fuels, taking advantage of renewable resources, like using corn and sugar to produce ethanol or soybeans to produce biodiesel.

America didn't create religious liberty. Religious liberty created America.

When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again.

We must stop being the stupid party.

Hillary Clinton, President Obama, they're trying to turn the American dream into the European nightmare. We need to rescue the country from socialism.

Some stories won't have a happy ending, but there's always hope that the next one will. Hope is everything. Even when there's nothing else. Especially when there's nothing else.

I don't want you to feel sorry for me. I want you to forgive yourself for being human, just like you would forgive anyone else.

drenching his shirt with saltwater

I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much.

I've been loved in life, but all that matters now is that I'm loved by you." -Eva

Valerie Sherwood, I said to myself, you're going to die.

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men

The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.

The Civil Service is a bit like a rusty weathercock. It moves with opinion then it stays where it is until another wind moves it in a different direction