My mother always told me that as you go through life, no matter what you do, or how you do it, you leave a little footprint, and that's your legacy.

I took an oath to protect the people of Arizona, and that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to keep pushing in that direction.

Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining.

Ninety-nine point nine percent of the people that are gun owners are very responsible.

I always tried to do what I believed is right and I've always voted the way that I believe was the right way for my constituency, and that's what I'm doing when I govern.

I believe boycotts are wrong.

So you know, I think that the federal government, the Democrats, and President Obama are selling a lot of hope and change, but no delivery of any of those promises.

Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert, either buried or just lying out there, that have been beheaded.

A nation without borders is like a house without walls - it collapses. And that is what is going to happen to our wonderful America.

Arizona is now recognized as a premier place in which to locate, expand and grow a business.

Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.

The only people in the whole world that Salim loved had been killed by the virus that traveled to America in his own blood.

The future is already here - it's just not evenly distributed.

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.

The ten most powerful two-letter words in the English language are: If it is to be, it is up to me.

Sometimes when we don't know the answer, it's time to simply be with the question.

The past does not have to be your prison. You have a voice in your destiny. You have a say in your life. You have a choice in the path you take.

Half the art of ballooning is to make your crashes so gentle that you can fool yourself into calling them landings.

The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness.

Cynicism is a choice. Optimism is a better choice.