I'm just a citizen temporarily in public service.

When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.

Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again.

When liberals say 'family', they mean 'Big Brother in Washington.' When we say 'family,' we mean 'honor thy father and mother.'

I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show.

We in government should learn to look at our country with the eyes of the entrepreneur, seeing possibilities where others see only problems

People don't start wars, governments do.