In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.
We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world.
I learned that the purpose of the Twelve Steps is to do the will of God.
Match play really exposes your character and how much of a will to win you have in your heart.
If we continue to allow the federal government to live beyond its means, we will all soon have to live beneath ours.
I have always been a firm believer in the longstanding American principle of having the right to bear arms and I will remain committed to see that this freedom is not infringed upon, revoked, or limited in any way.
We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.
If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.
Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
I will throw all my best efforts into it, my thoughts and political observations, but ultimately I want to create a narrative that keeps you turning the pages and leaves you with a sense that this thing has a reason for being there.
People in the U.S. will watch anything if it's put in front of their face over and over again. I like to see what's possible, more than anything.
I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.