Why go somewhere else and start up all over again?

Excellent education and an excellent environment are two hallmarks of our state. How we treat our environment is connected to so many other opportunities in Maine.

All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine.

Our goal is to make Maine the healthiest state in the nation and reduce our overall health care costs.

Just as the Red Sox proved the critics wrong, Maine can compete and can win.

Providing for the common good, making people feel secure in their communities and homes - this is the central job of government. it's why all of us are here serving our state and our people.

Beauty has its own vices.

What drew her into O’Riley’s like a bee to honey was the six-foot, broad-shouldered, dark eyes, dark smile of Finn O’Riley himself.

Keep Moving...Move forwardLet go Give inDecideand just DoProgress every dayAnd make one step forward no matter what's in your wayKeep moving, till one day you wake up and you're there.

I can read people, and if the other person doesn't want to say anything, I'm fine with that. People say things when it's time to say them.

Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.

what you don't know, you don't miss

Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts.

A small pot boils quick. You can tell much about the depth of one's character by how quickly he 'boils'.

Mistakes are the stepping stones to success.

Subject matter does not determine a successful painting. It is the manner in which one personally envisions and interprets the subject that is the magical equation.