I became a Republican when a very wise young lady asked me how I could remain a Democrat when I didn't agree with what they stood for and did agree with what the Republicans supported.

That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage.

If God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 apostles.

Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill?

White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills and factories? Frank Graham favors mingling of the races.

It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.

Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education.

If you want to call me a bigot, fine.

All I know is that D'Aubuisson is a free enterprise man and deeply religious.

It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative.

We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support.

No, this isn't right. I don't think the people doing it know or care about right and wrong. This is all some kind of show, but I don't understand it either.

Writers dream of sentences that sail through the waters of thought. We try to control their shape and size, and we struggle to let them glide, rather than thrash at sea.

What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Managing innovation better may be the only way out of the abyss called commodity hell.

The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.

Apart from Jesus Christ you are spiritually bankrupt.

The battle of the euro is being fought right now in Spain and Italy...The future of the euro is at stake in the next few weeks...

I'm enjoying my years, I'm enjoying my life, I'm enjoying my family. I'm just happy - a happy person.

Well, I have a farm in Vermont that's my main residence, where I do lots of digging and mowing, and ride tractors - just so you don't get the wrong idea that I'm too girlie!