I know that many students take personal responsibility for their education and succeed as a result. I want them to know they are not alone - that Nevada's system can and will support them.

Unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy - the cure is not more government spending, but helping businesses create jobs.

Nevada was hit hardest by the recession - highest unemployment, highest foreclosure rate, highest bankruptcy rate.

Racial profiling is illegal, and I do not support it.

We must remind Americans that the promise of opportunity remains unbroken - that every person in this great nation can succeed through hard work, courage and personal responsibility.

As governor, part of my job is to tell people things they don't like to hear.

I'm a strong supporter of states' rights to do what they need.

I am proud of my heritage and my family.

My first job was cleaning sheep pens.

Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.

When you talk about a 'broad-based business tax,' that's a pretty broad term. I don't know what that means. But it's not something I would be supportive of.

He who wants peace must prepare for war.

The glory of science is to imagine more than we can prove.

All life is temporary Why worry about anything that's only temporary

I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.

For some it is harder to write a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic.

That's why I sleep alone. My hair is curly, and that's why I have my ponytail. I look like a madman, like something out of a horror movie.

Government by idea tends to take in everything, to make the whole of society obedient to the idea. Spaces not so governed are unconquered, beyond the border, unconverted, a future danger.

It took the United States Army to get one Negro into the University of Mississippi; it took troops to get a few Negroes in the white schools at Little Rock and another dozen places in the South.

I don't like to sing loud.

Old age is the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that remains.