Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.

As both a former governor and a Naval officer I can tell you energy security remains among biofuels' most important benefits.

We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.

Public education is an investment in our future.

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.

If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increase.

The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.

Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people.

The Governor's Mansion is a beautiful home, a beautiful building - we're privileged to have a chance to live there. It certainly doesn't feel as comfortable as our home.

The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.

By night an atheist half-believes in God.

Originality is the art of concealing your sources.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

We cannot forget that our flag received its first foreign salute from a Dutch officer, nor that the Province of Friesland gave to our independence its first formal recognition.

The verb 'highly favored' (Luke 1:28) is the same as 'made us accepted' in Ephesians 1:6, referring to all of God's children. All true believers have been 'highly graced' by the Lord.

I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12.

I will be going to Belgium to win -- and we will see how the weekend develops from there.

Usually right when I'm feeling it, right when it's happening, I always find I need to be in some sort of survival mode or mature mom mode, so it always seems to come later that I have the breakdown.

Your life is big. Keep reaching.

To be a part of something like 'Tron,' good God! It doesn't matter how big or small your role is, you're like, 'Yeah, I was in 'Tron.''