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

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.

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

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.

My heart was in a perpetual state of sadness and the only relief I could find were in those cathartic cries. I lived a fragile existence.

Pain can either thrust me into the arms of Jesus or make me turn my back on Him. Either way, it's a choice.

I DON’T KNOW! I HAVE NO FREAKIN’ IDEA. I’M ONLY FIFTEEN. I want my mom.

The truth is what we say it is...prove to me this desk is not a cow!

Embrace your constraints. They are provocative. They are challenging. They wake you up. They make you more creative. They make you better.

We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.

To live without history is to live like an infant, constantly amazed and challenged by a strange and unnamed world.

I'm going to be a president who believes in science.

The consumer, so it is said, is the king each is a voter who uses his money as votes to get the things done that he wants done.

We traveled for two weeks with a pickled hippo.