We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do.

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.

We have reduced sales tax on food. Now we want it eliminated.

Come to West Virginia and we'll show you how to live... how to treat people. We're open for business. West Virginia is truly on the move.

I know firsthand how agonizing waiting can be.

I would never abdicate, nor would I expect any other governor to abdicate, the responsibility to protect the people of my state.

We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do.

A child's geographic location, race or parent's income level should not predetermine their life's course and it's up to us to see that they don't.

Economic development is what's going to make mountaintop removal palatable.

Every child should have a safe place in their life.

I can assure you that my wife and I - every penny of income we've ever had, our taxes were paid in West Virginia.

I don't know anyone in the hunting or sporting arena that goes out with an assault rifle.

I just think, you know, when we talk about a politician, I think a person has to be themselves. Let the voters see the real you.

I strongly believe that every American should always be rooting for our president to do well, no matter which political party that he or she might belong to.

I think it's time to rebuild America.

I'm a defender of the Second Amendment to the Constitution.

Millions and millions of people are proud gun owners, and they do it responsibly and by the law.

My grandmother had a great saying. It always stuck with me: 'People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.' They've got to see it and feel it. And it's for real. And that's all. Be who you are.

There's a lot of Democrats, myself included, who have supported right-to-life.

We have to change the culture of mass violence we have.

Well, you know, first of all, let me just say that I am a proud member of the NRA and have been, and I'm a lifetime member and will always be.

Whoever is president, my first priority is the same - as always. I look for what's best for West Virginia and the nation as a whole.

Why would anybody not own a gun?

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.

Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.

Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.

The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.

I try to keep an open mind but I'm so tired of the mediocrity.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

The function of a genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted.