I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.

In general pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies but just as much to stand up to our friends.

I've made some great mistakes in my life but you know they were honest mistakes.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully but a greater to accept it graciously.

If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars he or she should learn something about fieldwork something about bibliography something about how to carry out library research and something about how to publish that research.

Are we still a country that takes risks that innovates that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?

There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money power and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.

Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.

I spent my whole life in the private sector 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow we don't put Americans to work.