I thank God tonight for freedom - those who bought and paid for it with their lives in the past - those who will protect it in the present and defend it in the future.

To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement.

Patenting and purchase of lands are absolutely vital to the health of Nevada's rural communities.

I don’t want to be a lonely governor.

I am humbled and grateful for the four years the people of the state of Nevada have given me as governor and I am proud of the work we all did.

It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW.

Oprah is rich, Bill Gates is wealthy. If Bill Gates woke up tomorrow with Oprah's money, he'd jump out a fuckin' window and slit his throat on the way down saying, "I can't even put gas in my plane!"

But, inevitably, as he [Kierkegaard] approaches what we might call his Christocentric climax many readers drop off. Many scholars just leave that part of his authorship alone.

You pretty much can't get away from bacon or whiskey in the South. Put a doughnut in it and you'd be good to go.

I would put primary emphasis on a good standard of living equitably distributed. It can't be equal, but one that eliminates the terrible cruelty of poverty.

Take your records, take you freedom, take your memories, I dont need 'em. And take your cat, and leave my sweater, cause we've got nothing left to weather.

I am just a plain, common man.

Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.

I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.

To be alone by being part of the universe-fitting in completely to an environment of woods and silence and peace. Everything you do becomes a unity and a prayer. Unity within and without.