People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure that they probably said that about Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.

We’re supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.

We need to diversify our economy, and the energy industry would be a great place to begin that diversification.

I'm pro responsible choice. You know, there is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kinds of good choices

And we know that once we have a majority that are dependent upon the government, we will lose our freedom; it says we go into bondage. That's the next stage.

I think that, you know, when we start talking about the Tea Party, people want to marginalize that into some kind of organization or party, but it really isn't.

I'm hoping that we're not getting to Second Amendment remedies. I hope the vote will be the cure for the Harry Reid problems.

We have put in so much entitlement into our government that we really have spoiled our citizenryand said, you don't want the jobs that are available.

I'll tell you the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out.

They [Republicans] say, 'You're too conservative.' Was Thomas Jefferson too conservative? I'm tired of some people calling me wacky.

People ask me, "What are you going to do to develop jobs in your state?" Well, that's not my job as a US senator...

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

I'm a gentleman and I was always taught it's rude, to talk about a woman's age or weight unless you are breaking up with her.

A popular saying in Alderson went as follows: 'They work us like a horse, feed us like a bird, treat us like a child, dress us like a man - and then expect us to act like a lady.

My writing, such as it is, grows out of my sense of discolation, I mean, dislocation. Having lost my place, I write to find my place, or to find once again that I have lost my place.

I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patriarchal family; I was supposed to marry and make everyone around me happy.

Don't put anything into a story that does not reveal character or advance the action.

I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to it.

I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike.

Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.

What we love and what captures our curiosity draws us forward into some place of great destiny.