When you record something, you never know who's going to hear it.

We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.

I don't believe in carrying a weapon. If somebody wants to shoot me, he'll have to bring his own gun.

That's the government. Having been a politician and a musician, I can tell you which one is a higher calling. If musicians ran the country, it would be a much different place. We wouldn't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'd work late.

There's a fine line between fiction and non-fiction and I think I snorted it somewhere in 1979

This system is really broken. No Child Left Behind has really failed and the only way to solve education is to leave one governor behind.

But the most dangerous thing in the world in the world is to run the risk of waking up one morning and realizing suddenly that all this time you've been living without really and truly living and by then it's too late. When you wake up to that kind of realization, it's too late for wishes and regrets. It's even too late to dream.