The first thing I'll do if elected is demand a recount.

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

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.

Remember, the Legislature is the joke, not our campaign.

Yes, I'm a Judeo-Christian. Jesus and Moses are in my heart. And both of them were independents, by the way.

If Raymond Chandler came from the South, his name would be Ace Atkins.

My goal as a young man, to be fat, famous and financially fixed by 50.