Racial profiling is illegal, and I do not support it.

Unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy - the cure is not more government spending, but helping businesses create jobs.

Nevada was hit hardest by the recession - highest unemployment, highest foreclosure rate, highest bankruptcy rate.

I know that many students take personal responsibility for their education and succeed as a result. I want them to know they are not alone - that Nevada's system can and will support them.

We must remind Americans that the promise of opportunity remains unbroken - that every person in this great nation can succeed through hard work, courage and personal responsibility.

As governor, part of my job is to tell people things they don't like to hear.

I'm a strong supporter of states' rights to do what they need.

I am proud of my heritage and my family.

My first job was cleaning sheep pens.

Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.

When you talk about a 'broad-based business tax,' that's a pretty broad term. I don't know what that means. But it's not something I would be supportive of.

She knew the soothing power of a human touch on aching flesh. Knew the strange bond that formed when two creatures united in mutual need, one hurting, the other healing.

...a dream isn't a wish - it's an altered state of consciousness ...

There really is "no effort without error and shortcoming" and there really is no triumph without vulnerability.

I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.

It is better to present one image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous work. Image...that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.

I believe that Europe without Britain at the heart will be less reform-driven, less open, less international Europe.

Half of these aren't even Machiavelli. Some are Plato, Thucydides etc....doesnt anyone check these?

I'm confident in some of the things that I wear, regardless of what other people are wearing.

We can't sell short the spiritual power of cannabis, especially when eaten.

The greatest obstacle is simply this: the belief that we cannot change because we are dependent on what is wrong. That is the addict's excuse.