Providing for the common good, making people feel secure in their communities and homes - this is the central job of government. it's why all of us are here serving our state and our people.

Excellent education and an excellent environment are two hallmarks of our state. How we treat our environment is connected to so many other opportunities in Maine.

All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine.

Our goal is to make Maine the healthiest state in the nation and reduce our overall health care costs.

Just as the Red Sox proved the critics wrong, Maine can compete and can win.

Why go somewhere else and start up all over again?

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Too scared to fightToo afraid to open my eyesToo small to stand up for myselfToo awake to fight for my dreamsGod please teach me to be brave So that I can brave defeat

Not to do as the child wishes would be wrong because he is born on a path, and it would be evil, a crime against nature to make him deny his spirit.

The scientist is activated by a wonder and awe before the mysterious comprehensibility of the universe which is yet finally beyond his grasp. In its profoundest depths it is inaccessible to man.

The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.

At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is power. For me, it is peace.

I've always said that there's a huge progressive rock, progressive metal audience out there, in the world.

Politics is its own world. It is a court and if the king's eye lights on you, you are a powerful figure. If the king's eye wanders elsewhere, you are out, whatever your title.

Time matters less than the nature of the people.

I had been attracted by Malcolm X when he was still a member of the Nation of Islam.