The easy way out is to approve an early retirement plan one year but not pay out sick and vacation time to deserving employees until three years later. Unfortunately, later is now.

I'm angry when we have to use state dollars to fill holes in our low-income heating assistance program because there isn't enough support from Washington.

At the end of the day, the goals are simple: safety and security.

The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.

I have kept a steady focus on restoring public faith in our state government since taking office July 1. Now it is time to make even bigger and bolder gains through legislative action.

This continuing spike in gas prices is bad for consumers, bad for our economy, and bad for all other businesses. It is hurting us and costing us jobs.

I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.

Managers, regardless of salary, should not be allowed to earn or use comp time. They are expected to work as many hours as needed to get the job done - especially at these salary levels.

Reading is more important than writing.

Money can bring the children into places of power and influence

In a stress pressure-cooker like America, I believe we will see more and more shooting massacres. Violence is in our cultural DNA.

I watch the trees all dressed up in the Spring, While posing as they stand in line, Placing their best foot forward, showing off their leaves and fighting for attention, One tree at a time

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

The harder the fighting and the longer the war, the more the infantry, and in fact all the arms, lean on the gunners.

Constrain the user's expectations to match the abilities of the software.

Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.

For these are not as they might seem to be, the ruins of our civilization, but are temporary encampment and outposts of the civilization that we - you and I - shall build.

If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be God's passion.