If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increase.

As both a former governor and a Naval officer I can tell you energy security remains among biofuels' most important benefits.

We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.

Public education is an investment in our future.

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.

Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.

The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.

Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people.

The Governor's Mansion is a beautiful home, a beautiful building - we're privileged to have a chance to live there. It certainly doesn't feel as comfortable as our home.

The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.

What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.

let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences

On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead.

All life is bound to a simple truth... that time goes on, that in each person's life begins a tale, a tale that will either end in memory or in legend.

You too can be as influential as the people that you admire. It is a matter of having the willingness to work relentlessly for it.

We must have a warrant for our prayers. If we have some great desire, we must search the scriptures to find if it be right to ask it.

The craziest thing about TV directing is I turned in a version, and then they made their final changes - so I don't know what they are. So I'm like, "Ooo, I'm dying to see the final print."

One of the best ways countries can combat poverty is to use development assistance to promote a growing private sector, in which the poor can fully participate.

I love different kinds of movies, and I love different kinds of people. That's the spice of life.

My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.