Since I was a boy - born into a farming family in Bonaire, GA - I've had agriculture running through my veins.

My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.

Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.

The South is a great driving destination for tourism - heritage, cultural and many other types of tourism.

No, our greatness does not come from our government.

We don't want a busybody government - a boss - that butts into our lives every chance it gets to tell us how to work, how to play, where to live and on and on.

In the business world, lower profits reflect less demand for your product. But in government the opposite is true - demand for our services increases in hard times.

I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness And I believe greatness is within our grasp.

We want a state wise in its contemplation - just in its actions - and moderate in the reach of government into our lives.

Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.

I call it people-to-people politics and thats what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what were going to do.

Never break a promise to an animal. They're like babies—they won't understand.

If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.

Never apologize for your success because you worked hard for it.

Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.

Calvin [Trillin] was much more of a mover and a shaker. That's all I'm saying. I was a "weenie." That was another term back then.

God uses singers in a mighty way, and I am grateful.

No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.

There are a lot of idiots on the Internet getting a lot of attention.

When you build a bridge, you insist that it can carry 30,000 pounds, but you only drive 10,000-pound trucks across it. And that same principle works in investing.

He doesn't mind if he dies... indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.