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

Compromise, hell! That's what has happened to us all down the line -- and that's the very cause of our woes. If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?

I fight for what I believe. If you are not willing to stand up for what you believe, your beliefs are not strong enough.

The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that's thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere with other men's rights.

This bill attempts to make sure that President Clinton is not allowed to do by Executive Order what Congress has declined to enact in the past two congressional sessions namely, to treat homosexuals as a special class protected under various titles of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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.