I want our young people to believe as we did that there is no goal too high to reach if they are willing to work.

The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble.

This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones.

Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education.

Coming from a very inarticulate family made me try to speak for those who can't express themselves and created a need for articulation at its most ceremonial - poetry.

I can understand why immigrants would want to bring the rest of their extended family here, including older ones who will benefit from our health-care system.

I was the only child born to Josephine Perry that survived. Mama had six other children before me, and all had passed very quickly and very young, all succumbing to a combination of illness and disease and the lack of strength to fight off both.

The Scriptures bear ample and continuous evidence that the faith of the resurrection of the body lies in the faith that Jesus Christ died and rose again.