The greatest threats to North Dakota are policies coming out of Washington, D.C. I see it every day and feel a sense of responsibility to do something about it.

I am a joyful conservative, unafraid to articulate big ideas with an optimistic smile.

My children range in age from 5 to 31. We adopted the 5-year-old, but people are often impressed with my wife before knowing that.

I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether its being a reporter or serving in public life or being a plumber - as an extension of ministry.

The sight of a worm excites my reverence more than all the gods men have invented.

Quit waiting for others to give to you

Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.

My mind is my laboratory.

A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

The pale and quiet moon Makes her calm forehead bare, And the last fragments of the storm, Like shattered rigging from a fight at sea, Silent and few, are drifting over me.

Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?

Thirty years ago, there was definitely a huge difference between men and women, and the man wanting to feel like the protector, and not scare the wife

Im not expecting to grow flowers in the desert, but I can live, and breathe, and see the sun in wintertime

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.