I think Gary Johnson would be capable of being a good chief executive and yes a commander in chief - Aleppo to the contrary, notwithstanding.

I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.

Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.

I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.

People aren't stupid. I mean, people remember in 1990, the unemployment rate was 10 percent. Now it's 4 _ percent. We've got 1/4 million jobs that we've created.

If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability economic, political and social.

The best preparation for work is not thinking about work, talking about work, or studying for work: it is work.

My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep.

Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.

Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea.

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

You'd be surprised how many people in the modern age no longer fear zombies as much as teletubies.

I'd love to be an artist that's multifaceted.

A little wine sometimes, that's all. Spirits (are) bad. Alcohol wrong. Herb does grow.

I would happily storm hell in the company of these troops ... how strongly they have demonstrated to the world that free men and women can fight like the dickens.

I wanted a girl as perfect as Brooke, and instead, she gave me something I never knew I wanted: something perfect that looks like me.

Live nutty. Just occasionally. Just once in a while. And see what happens. It brightens up the day.

People who renovate and improve homes are penalized by being taxed more for creating value and improving the neighborhood.

My feeling is that a newspaper should serve its readers and it just seems to me that given what is going in the world, people are hungry for something.

It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.

To me everything is fun. I've started Twittering or tweeting recently and that's been fun.