One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.

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.

As a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: What you create and What you allow.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

God has made us for Himself, and our hearts can never know rest and perfect satisfaction until they find it in Him.

My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.

I'll find something in what I read that snags my imagination in emotional terms; it resonates with me for reasons more complicated than just that it seems like it would make a good story.

How exciting is it to come to work if the best you can do is trounce some other company that does roughly the same thing?

The question arises as to whether it is possible not to live in the world of men and still to live in the world.

I don't wish to be a slave any longer to the stringent exigencies of literature.

Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.

I'm tall with broad shoulders. And my waist is small. I'm into fashion, so I like the way clothes lay on me. I'm pretty much a normal person's size, just stretched out.