After much thought and prayer, I have come to my own personal conclusion that we shouldn't tell people who they can love or who they can marry.

I need to be looking at what's important in North Carolina, and you better believe that's what I will do.

For too long, Americans have fallen victim to financial abuses at the hands of predatory lenders that operate in the shadows.

People like Elizabeth Dole have given too much power to the special interests.

My faith guides my life.

I'm up for re-election in 2014, and yes I do plan to run for re-election.

Well, I believe in God. I taught Sunday school.

It doesn't count if it's from friends, right?

They be like what's the formula? I be like kiss the Son, kiss your worries goodbye.

The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.

The kingdom of God is not going to arrive on Air Force One.

And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.

You want to hate somebody, if you can, just to keep your powers of discrimination bright, and to save yourself from becoming a mere mush of good-nature.

I do know that the world knows or thinks that I have money and lots of it. They perceive me as an old weak man and an easy target.

There was always some germ of joy, some little paramecium of happiness wriggling around, waiting for a chance to get out.

In investing it is never wrong to change your mind. It is only wrong to change your mind and do nothing about it.

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.