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.

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.

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.

Whoever has My commandments and keeps them loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and show Myself to him.

We sat bathed in luscious darkness, Casco Bay's thousand islands spread out before us like a diamond quilt. 'I don't get enough of this, ' she said.

No matter how hot the water from your well, it will not cook your rice.

If my golf game was a prize fight, they'd stop it.

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

No man - I don't care how colossal his intellect - No man is greater than his prayer life.

Your innermost core has always been pure. Purity is intrinsic to you, it cannot be taken away.

That's what I am. I warn people. Whenever I see and I feel things in my heart, I speak it.

American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.

The death of contentment is comparison.