You can't have employment and despise employers ... No goose, no golden eggs.

Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living.

I wish I had spent more time at the office.

This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young.

Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.

Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.

Breastroke is an athletic event, butterfly is a political statement.

No one on his deathbed ever said, "I wish I had spent more time on my business."

My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.

You cannot be pro-jobs and anti-business at the same time. You cannot love employment and hate employers.

That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.

Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between who? Lord Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.

Thinking little of yourself is not humility.

Jett Gallatin expected trouble in Alsop, Texas—but not zombies.

When everyone zigs, zag. Life is all about trying to get somewhere first.

I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.

People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.

The reality, certainly in my life, is that we all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We're not destroyed by it.

Business exists to supply goods and services to customers and economic surplus to society, rather than to supply jobs to workers and managers or even dividends to shareholders.

After 9/11, the businesses in my district and throughout the New York metropolitan area saw firsthand the result of a lack of availability of terrorism insurance.

Catharsis comes from the ancient Greek word...which literally translated means 'to pass a hard stool'