"And before our current legislature adjourns, we intend to become the first state of full and true choice by saying to every low and middle-income Hoosier family, if you think a non-government school is the right one for your child, you're as entitled to that option as any wealthy family; here's a voucher, go sign up."

"We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources."

"If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come."

"We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts, and now in the tens of thousands these citizens are proving that they are fully capable of making smart, consumerist choices about their own health care."

"Leadership is not a title, it is the realization that hope is the anchor of a weary soul."

"Do not measure life by the breaths you take, but by the moments that stir your soul. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The Hell's Angels try not to do anything halfway, and anyone who deals in extremes is bound to cause trouble, whether he means to or not. This, along with a belief in total retaliation for any offense or insult, is what makes the Hell's Angels unmanageable for the police and morbidly fascinating to the general public."

"I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil."