It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.

God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world.

There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on.

The best places to live, work, and visit are those places that are willing to uphold their standards in the face of pressure to allow lowest common denominator development... Successful communities understand that when they say no to development that is contrary to the long-term health of their community, they will almost always get better development in its place.

I have learned two important lessons from my association with the Marine Corps: always be on time and always be ready to do what is required when you get there.

Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.

If you have a boat and a happy marriage, you don't need another thing.