I opposed annexing in areas around our city borders, because I knew that if neighborhoods wanted to be a part of the city, well, they would mandate themselves in and invite themselves into a city. That's just one example of even on a local level how dangerous it is for a politician to start thinking they know more than that individual family, that individual business.

Bear hunting? Come on up and we'll fix you up, you betcha. Just be sure you bring some hunting buddies with you, preferably fat ones who can't run as fast as you.

I love that smell of the emissions!

How do you know there’s not a door to heaven in the sky between Malaysia and Vietnam?

It may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: 'Sit down and shut up,' but that's the worthless, easy path; that's a quitter's way out.

I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't.'

Nuclear weaponry, of course, would be the be-all, end-all of just too many people in too many parts of our planet.