I'm up for re-election in 2014, and yes I do plan to run for re-election.

After much thought and prayer, I have come to my own personal conclusion that we shouldn't tell people who they can love or who they can marry.

I need to be looking at what's important in North Carolina, and you better believe that's what I will do.

For too long, Americans have fallen victim to financial abuses at the hands of predatory lenders that operate in the shadows.

People like Elizabeth Dole have given too much power to the special interests.

My faith guides my life.

Well, I believe in God. I taught Sunday school.

Although it is great to know, it is better to be told, 'I love you.' Whose day can you make better today by simply saying, 'I love you?' Now do the thing you know better to do.

It would be very unwise to beg anyone who abandoned you in the past to come into your beautiful present.

I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.

The best way to understand this whole issue is to look at what the government does: it takes money from some people, keeps a bunch of it, and gives the rest to other people.

A lot of the Google inventions came from engineers just screwing around with ideas. And then management would see them, and we'd say, 'Boy, that's interesting. Let's add some more engineers.'

You've heard of people living in a fool's paradise? Well, Leonora has a duplex there.

No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.

Google is my rapid response research assistant. It's the Swiss Army knife of information retrieval.

Good health, longevity, happiness, a loving family, self-reliance, fine friends … if you [have] five, you’re a rich man….