I've been at some pains to say that I fear for the country if Mr.[DonALD] Trump should be elected. I think it's a candidacy without any parallel that I can recall.

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.

I'm so in love with you I can't stand up.

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.

Most of the people I write about have been ambitious outlanders who have been attracted to New York from other parts of the world.

I believe in a higher spirit.

If I can take it, I can make it.

The closed circle of materialism is clear to us now - aspirations become wants, wants become needs, and self-gratification becomes a bottomless pit.

I'd rather be in Las Vegas 104 degrees than New York 90 degrees, you know why? Legalized prostitution. In any weather that takes the edge off.