On your principles, you should never yield; you should be prepared to be defeated. Nobody likes to be defeated, but you should let everybody know in the most articulate and thoughtful and civil way you can (you don't go out and pick fights with people) that in certain matters that you define as matters of principle you will not budge, you cannot yield, you will not compromise. If you don't have the votes or the winning argument, then you stand to be defeated and rolled over, and you'll just have to come back another day.

This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones.

I want our young people to believe as we did that there is no goal too high to reach if they are willing to work.

We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support.

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.

I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.

The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the U.N.