It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.

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.

If you know who you are, this knowledge will attract people in all types of situation and circumstances to support your intentions and ideas

I say that good painters imitated nature

The flower doth not worry, and the tree doth not waver.

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life’s highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.

It proved what he had always instinctively known.Love is Forever.

As a person who performs on stage, it's good to be emotionally open. If you mess with someone when they are in that state, it's like you're messing with an animal when it's eating.

I love Germany so much I'm glad there are two of them.

The more we stretch the muscle called compassion and generosity, the stronger we get, the better we feel about ourselves, the more loving we become to the world around us.

Be yourself! Be individualistic!' he called out after me. 'But for God's sake get your hair cut. You look like an oddball.

If I behave as though this is a completely normal situation, then maybe it will be.