Look back to 2001, … President Bush was at his all-time high, it was just after Sept. 11, and Virginia elected a Democratic governor.

I want someone with a national reputation. I want somebody who is a good manager of people and who is a change agent. I think the one-term governor hurts transportation more than anything else because...

I was the legal counsel in the effort to amend the Virginia Constitution to give Virginians the right to hunt and fish constitutionally, and we are one of the few states in the country to...

Probably the issue at top of their list was better work-force development. (Danville officials) feel like the state’s efforts are kind of fragmented, and we need to do a better job of coordinating them. And...

I am focusing on things where we can build on this management tradition that we have, advance smart priorities and do so in ways that save us money on the back end.

We now know that the American people were given inaccurate information about the reasons for invading Iraq. We now know that our troops in Iraq were not given the best body armor or the best...

I feel the momentum is going the right way. Virginians have been happy with what Mark and I have done. They don’t want to do a U-turn and that’s really helping me.

I think he realizes that if he has to stand up and (answer) that, folks aren’t going to like the answers he gives.

It wasn’t close a few months ago.

God grants life, and God should take it away. [Do] horrible, heinous things deserve incredible punishment? You bet.

We can’t just tax and pave our way out of traffic. I’ll give your community more power to stop out-of-control development that increases traffic.

What would you subtract? Jerry Kilgore has not yet identified one dime of any cut or subtraction he would make. He’s a classic guy who wants to have it both ways; he wants to say...

Often, money is taken out of that fund for other projects. I’ll make sure that stops.

The federal government should serve the American people. But that mission is frustrated by this administration’s poor choices and bad management. Families in the Gulf Coast see that as they wait to rebuild their lives.

I saw that and it just made my heart sink. That act reflected very poorly on him and on the institution.

We spend at least $5 for remedial education right now for every dollar we put in early childhood education. All the studies on early childhood education show this is going to pay for itself.

You want to have a shooting contest? You want to go hiking? Give me a pocketknife and a set of matches and I’ll go up against anybody,