In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.

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.

During your struggle society is not a bunch of flowers, it is a bunch of cactus.

Resentment leads to rude behaviour.

...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.

I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.

If you have the ability to do something, you should do it.

I don't regret anything.

General Petraeus is not a miracle worker. He can not be successful unless the president creates greater confidence within his own team about the decisions which the president has himself made.

Prince.. a true artist in every sense of the world.Gone way too soon.

My longest love affair: with a book.

I'm a New Yorker, and I jaywalk with the best of them.