There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy.

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.

Fill yourself with love to feel the abundance of life.

In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all.

Curiosity is the driving force that propels humanity forward.

I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that He has a sense of humor.

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

To be really honest, I don't love the gym.

Love is bigger then a tsunami, stronger then any fear.

Memories are made of peculiar stuff, elusive and yet compelling, powerful and fleet. You cannot trust your reminiscences, and yet there is no reality except the one we remember.

You don't have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.

What you do simply proves what you believe.