Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.

I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.

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.

Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.

Love at first sight is easy to understand

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

We're not friends, Mark, " I reply sadly. "We're strangers with memories.

With every deed you are sowing a seed though the harvest you may not see.

I love sculpture, and minimal sculpture is really my favorite stuff, but I wasn't very good at it, and I don't think in a three-dimensional way.

The Framers were no more interested in binding future Americans to a set of divinely inspired commandments than any of us would wish to be bound by them.

The world is continuous, but the mind is discrete.

This is my letter to the world That never wrote to me

When Jesus Christ forgives you of sin, He never brings it back up.

It saddens me that Christians need to be reminded that awe is owed also to those who disagree with them, who believe otherwise than they do.