Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals.

I mean people up here aren't stupid, I'm lower gene pool and I kind of sit in amazement at watching some of them because they are pretty damn smart.

A safe, affordable and plentiful supply of food is a national security issue.

When we visited with legislative counsel, they told us that the only way to effectively accomplish what we were trying to do was to put the words in the legislation.

There are a lot of latchkey kids. I don't want to be sitting there when a guy blurts something out over the TV and have my daughters ask me what those words mean.

Clearly, high energy prices will have a large negative effect on the California economy and could possibly drag the rest of the nation into a recession.

I know how to make stuff happen, how to create wealth, create jobs, create investment.

What does it mean to have a Republican majority in the House? A lot of people think So what? They should think again.

Character primarily is honesty with God, ones-self, and others."~R. Alan Woods [2013]

Julian said the world was evil and horrible - remember? But then he proved himself that it wasn't

When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same benefits on other people. (Notes on a Cellar Book)

Love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed in public.

Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it.

In England we see people lulled sleep with solid and elaborate discourses of piety, who would be warmed and transported out of themselves by the bellowings and distortions of enthusiasm.

To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets.

This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly.

Life is evanescent, but left to itself it rarely fails to offer some consolation.

Trust is good, but control is better.