When we visited with legislative counsel, they told us that the only way to effectively accomplish what we were trying to do was to put the words in the legislation.

I mean people up here aren't stupid, I'm lower gene pool and I kind of sit in amazement at watching some of them because they are pretty damn smart.

Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals.

A safe, affordable and plentiful supply of food is a national security issue.

There are a lot of latchkey kids. I don't want to be sitting there when a guy blurts something out over the TV and have my daughters ask me what those words mean.

Clearly, high energy prices will have a large negative effect on the California economy and could possibly drag the rest of the nation into a recession.

I know how to make stuff happen, how to create wealth, create jobs, create investment.

What does it mean to have a Republican majority in the House? A lot of people think So what? They should think again.

Sometimes you are damn wrong and you just don't get it.

I grew up poor and used to look at people in big houses and thought they had everything. Then later on I looked at models in magazines and thought they had it all.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

I just sing and write songs and wear what I want. It's quite a good job really. If I wanted to I suppose I could become more of a fashion icon, but singing is my thing.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.

I love you' really is the gateway drug of breaking up.

The world is changing and the physical barriers are down now. It's time for the emotional barriers to go down. And what better place to start than school?

I guess I was a nice girl with a nice figure, because I just had to wear a bathing suit and dive in the pool. I was kind of candy, eye candy.

A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.