Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry that's its highest and best application.

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

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

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.

True love is the person you lay your eyes on that you will be with forever.

Kingdom laws are inherent to the native of mankind

True love is a lack of desire to check one's smartphone in another's presence.

I actually started writing it because I was inspired by my own personal growth.

[ Chadwick Boseman] is a remarkable actor, and he's a remarkable person.

[Margaret Thatcher] is a woman who, when she wrote her entry for "Who's Who," didn't include her mother. Now whether that was corrected in subsequent editions, I do not know.

It broke my heart when I learned the moon had been passing the sun’s light off as its own.

Faith is put to the test when the situation is most difficult.

Successful people fail often, and, worth noting, learn more from that failure than everyone else.

Nature is an incredible cooperative. When things operate outside of that cooperative, they die off. It's a very simple rule that nature operates under.