Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people.

As both a former governor and a Naval officer I can tell you energy security remains among biofuels' most important benefits.

We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.

Public education is an investment in our future.

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.

Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.

If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increase.

The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.

The Governor's Mansion is a beautiful home, a beautiful building - we're privileged to have a chance to live there. It certainly doesn't feel as comfortable as our home.

The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.

Travel on your sacred-path.

The separation of truth from reason is a dangerous game. I think ideas have to sink very deeply into a person's soul, into their being, before they can effect change.

You think that you have everything, but truly you have nothing but your wisdom, love, and kindness.

Perfection is static, And I am in full progress.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future,and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

Oh, this thing of keeping in constant touch with God, of making him the object of my thought and the companion of my conversations, is the most amazing thing I ever ran across.

I am not of Virginia blood; she is of mine.

I gotta pound the keys for the ideas to flow.

Knowledge can protect you much better than a strong castle!

Aren't you an enigma wrapped in a thick coating of contradictions.