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.

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.

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.

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

Change Management can become more successful with people at the core of change, the cause of change and the purpose of change.

If Heaven exists, to know that there's laughter, that would be a great thing.

Wearing a cape doesn't do much for your social life.

The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer's shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window.

It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.

Everything goes so fast that you wake up suddenly after 5 years and you just feel like you want to talk about different [things] than everybody in the group, you want to talk about your own things.

Two things I recognize, O Lord, in myself: Nature, which Thou hast made; Sin, which I have added.

The very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.

It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution.

I was an actor in Japan and I'm a regular on about three shows. I'm grateful for all of it. My personal activities like that help Big Bang as a whole as well.