Any time we have projects that we haven't begun or completed, they drain energy.
Real vision demands that we make tough choices. Real vision is responsible and it is paid for.
I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year.
We must remember that North Carolina is more than a collection of regions and people. We are one state, one people, one family, bound by a common concern for each other.
As Governor of North Carolina for two terms, I made improving education a top priority.
Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon.
Early college high schools in North Carolina and across the country show us that challenge - not remediation - is an approach to education that works.
I think the hill one has to trudge in order to understand a man's baggage is more of a trek than I'd like to take right now.
Coal is the moral choice, particularly for the developing world. . . The model for the world right now should be Australia. Australia gets it. Scientifically they get it, politically they get it and particularly when it comes to the United Nations, they get it. They are pulling out of this, they are repealing their carbon tax and Canada seems to be intrigued by what Australia is doing.
What's more vulnerable than being naked, especially when you're out in the cold on the street? I agreed to it as long as I could pick the towel, and I picked the smallest, most floral towel I could find.
Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight.