I think growing up in Santa Fe or Northern New Mexico in general instills a sense of humor in people, a sort of easygoing sense of not taking yourself too seriously, while still being very proud of where you come from, and that's something we all share.

State government is filled with dedicated, diligent professionals.

I think government actually does create jobs.

Nobody in this country, the richest on Earth, should ever go hungry.

Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love.

I've never gotten up in front of a Muslim congregation and played the role of a religious leader, and I decline those invitations because that's not what I am.

I've always considered myself a leader, a leader of men.

In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.