If God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 apostles.

That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage.

Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill?

White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills and factories? Frank Graham favors mingling of the races.

It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.

Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education.

If you want to call me a bigot, fine.

All I know is that D'Aubuisson is a free enterprise man and deeply religious.

It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative.

We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support.

I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him.

Can't you see that I'm only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb?

Morality is the clipping of a bird's wings.

My dear friend Jimmie Dodd was the heart and the soul of The Mickey Mouse Club.

You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.

I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.

If you enjoyed high school, you were probably a psychopath or a cheerleader. Or possibly both.

I just don't like people taking debt into retirement.

The question was asked, how can you be a mother and a congresswoman? I said, I have a brain, I have a uterus and they both work.

We are the prisoners of history. Or are we?

The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.