When we build a public library, we don't have to pay to get in, but when we build a stadium, we have to pay the owner every time we go to a game.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.

Jobs are created in the private sector. Not by the president or the government unless they're government jobs.

I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.

In the United States, if you buy a property and you're a good citizen, and you improve that property, what do they do to you? They tax you more. So they penalize you for good behavior.

[the downfall of our political system is the] buying and selling of politicians...bribery. In the private sector, you're arrested for it. In the public sector, it's the norm.

Most people would assume, as I do, that the courtroom is a place for the truth, but it's not with our corrupt judges today - and I'm talking about the corrupt ones on the court of appeals.