Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year.

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.

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

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

The difference between a dream and a fantasy is action.

Secret is the mother of all lies.

Every opportunity worth pursuing comes with a price tag. Either sweat or sacrifice. Sometimes both.

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

...If I were to feed strangers my information, they wouldn't have enough time to expose themselves to the world.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Sell yourself first, if you want to sell anything.

Most public bathrooms now have automatic toilet sensors. People can't even be trusted to flush.

My interest in fashion came from my interest in the body as a central cultural figure, not from admiring other designers - but of course I love Mason Martin Margiela, and I love Sybilla.

Everything passes. Joy. Pain. The moment of triumph; the sigh of despair. Nothing lasts forever - not even this.