As Governor of North Carolina for two terms, I made improving education a top priority.

We must remember that North Carolina is more than a collection of regions and people. We are one state, one people, one family, bound by a common concern for each other.

I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year.

Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon.

Real vision demands that we make tough choices. Real vision is responsible and it is paid for.

If we were truly created by God, then why do we still occasionally bite the insides of our own mouths?

It’s been a tsunami of media and I’ve been riding it on a mercury surfboard.

..Whoever dewlls on beauty tends to become beautiful; there will be a grace and charm to expressing itself through that person which no one can fail to recognize and appreciate.

To think is to destroy.

Everything goes, everything is lost, eventually. But if something is good, it doesn't matter what happens. The ending is still happy.

God help me, I'm just not that bright.

Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

I want to go to there.

Beethoven and Michelangelo, who sold their artworks for profit, were entrepreneurs and capitalists.