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.

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.

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

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

The more I learn, the more doors of information and opportunity are open to me.

It's not a competition, it's a doorway.

For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

Pleasure is the most real good in this life.

Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

Lord, I shall see you no more with the eyes of the flesh.

I wish I were better at straightforward description. I feel like I'm usually overdoing it or underdoing it, and it takes a lot of tweaking to get the details right.

I believe that anyone who flies in an airplane and doesn't spend most of his time looking out the window wastes his money.

You see, you cannot draw lines and compartments, and refuse to budge beyond them, sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success

You know I, I just think, that ah, things have a way of working themselves out.