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.

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.

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.

Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.

In time of rain I come:I can sing among the flowers:I utter my song: my heart is glad.Water of flowers foams over the earth:My heart was intoxicated.

My mother is my doctorCaring for me when am illI will love her forever tillWe are gone to our creator!

I gave you all my secrets, and you lost them all. You lost a lot of things.But the treasure of it was in the giving, not the keeping.

Love is a contradiction

The rest of my life (as a 39 year old) I want to reflect on what life is.

I want to play a character I've never been before-a crazy serial killer like Charlize Theron in Monster. I'd love to have to shave my head.

There is no such thing as a peace of soul approach to religion. It makes of God a gigantic Bayer Aspirin; take God three times a day and you won't feel any pain.

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

I love going to movies. It's just big, it takes you away, you can escape into it.