If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.

I have learned that one of the most important rules in politics is poise - which means looking like an owl after you have behaved like a jackass.

Permanent brain damage is one of the inevitable results of the use of marijuana.

Education is like a diamond with many facets: It includes the basic mastery of numbers and letters that give us access to the treasury of human knowledge, accumulated and refined through the ages; it includes technical and vocational training as well as instruction in science, higher mathematics, and humane letters.

We must act today in order to preserve tomorrow

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size.

Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem. ... Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it. ... The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.