True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.

Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.

Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone's life, no matter what the project.

We know that, when it comes to technology and the economy, if you're not constantly moving forward, then - without a doubt - you're moving backwards.

As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.

I believe the Patriot Act strikes the right balance needed to protect our freedom and security.

Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.

Words matter. All semester, we were looking for the words to say what we needed to say. We were all looking for our voice.

I make a project and I panic. Which is good, it can be a method. First, panic. Second, conquer panic by working. Third, find ways to solve your doubts.

And then he was gone. Leaving nothing but the swish of the front door, and a mountain of possibilities in his wake.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.

I'm a pro-life, pro-gun Louisiana Democrat.

Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals. Preferably big ones.

I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, which was in Carnegie Hall, which itself was exciting - just to walk into it.

In the latter case it is often government that organizes the conquest, and religion that justifies it.

I learned I'm not a good executive, I'm an entrepreneur and I'm creative. I have to go with my gut and do what I want to do.