Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea.

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.

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.

The principle virtue of anyone who made an important invention is curious persistence.

Faith itself is an act of human willing enabled and disciplined by grace.

It ain't kin we? It's will we?

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

An hour's history of two minds is well told in a game of chess.

That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

But never give your love, my friend, Unto a foolish heart

Once you conquer your selfish self, all your darkness will change to light.

He talked with more claret than clarity