Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.

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.

We are sometimes depressed by our failure to convince people who strongly believe that we are that we are definitely not depressed.

Being here is such a contrast to where I’d otherwise be.

Sometimes when I'm with you, I remember things I lost when I was your age. Like I remember the sound of the rain and the smell of the wind.

Rose: You're trembling. Jack: I'll be alright.

Great leaders are always out front with a banner, instead of behind with a whip.

Air ye deaf, lass?" I think. He might have called me a hairy jackass

I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

Whenever the moon and stars are set, Whenever the wind is high, All night long in the dark and wet, A man goes riding by.

In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth.