When completed, the budget must provide the services we have promised to our constituents.

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.

Arizona now has one of the most innovative systems of financing school construction in the nation.

We're helping those children who cannot help themselves and giving a push to those who can. We've done it by working together for a common purpose. I see no reason to stop now.

The attack and our response show just how vital Arizona's military bases are to the defense of our country. We need to do everything we can to protect them.

We emerged from the events of September 11 more steadfast in our beliefs, more courageous in our actions and more determined to protect our values than ever before.

Safety on our highways has improved significantly, with the help of the Legislature and the media.

Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax credits giving parents and their children more school choices than ever before.

We improved the environment in which our children live, learn and play by decreasing crime and clamping down on abuse and violence in the home and on the streets.

Arizona faces many challenges ahead. None is more important or more pressing than passing a new state budget.

I also want to thank Arizona citizens for their efforts at conserving energy last summer.

I make honorable things pleasant to children." A teacher from Sparta

There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time. That's true of all types of consumer electronics.

My sisters and I were encouraged to choose the direction of our lives.

A man who has never been hungry may possess a more refined palate, but he has no idea what it means to eat.

Alas, two men are often necessary to provide a woman with a perfect lover, just as in literature a writer composes a type only by employing the singularities of several similar characters.

I despise in others my own characteristics.

You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.

Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from the mass breeds eccentricity in them.

I can be drunk until 6 in the morning, and then I don't have to show up to work until 14 hours later.

Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude.