My children range in age from 5 to 31. We adopted the 5-year-old, but people are often impressed with my wife before knowing that.

I am a joyful conservative, unafraid to articulate big ideas with an optimistic smile.

The greatest threats to North Dakota are policies coming out of Washington, D.C. I see it every day and feel a sense of responsibility to do something about it.

I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether its being a reporter or serving in public life or being a plumber - as an extension of ministry.

Every flower blooms from the face of impossibility with a hope to make this world beautiful.

If you cannot see it, you will not be it

I don't mind the dark, and because it's Christmas, we've been busy putting lights up everywhere. High, so everyone knows we're okay.

Kissing was something I did a lot of. Kissing in a wheat field as the sun begins to set on a summer's evening, with the haze of that light.

The harder you work, the luckier you become.

I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.

When you start a new company, you have to do it all. Yes, all of it.

My daily beauty regimen consists of washing my face before bed and putting on moisturizer.

Poetics is a science for stammering poets.

We must come together with one heart, one mind, one love and one determination.