Virginia

“They could be thinking: 'This is perhaps the second time in a month that people associated with the Tea Party have really hurt us and we need to rethink things'. At some point, the national Republican party needs to decide: 'Are we going to be a majority party or go to the right, stake out that ground and maybe never hold national office again.”

““Virginia?” he said, as if I had asked him if there was anywhere local we could get a dose of syphilis.”

“Virginia puts on her prettiest colors to greet the seasons. In the fall, the colors of the leaves are lemon yellow, pumpkin gold, watermelon red, rusty oak, vermillion maple, burnt orange, and dusty green, and no two trees are the same.”

“The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian, but an American.”

“On the whole, I find nothing anywhere else... which Virginia need envy.”

“I think it would be better for Virginia if she could get rid of them... I think it would be for the benefit of Virginia.”

“We did not violate the law, and I will use every available resource and advocate I have for as long as it takes to fight these false allegations.”

“I think Stone Mountain is amusing, but then again I find most representations of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson outside of Virginia, and, in Jackson's case, West Virginia, to be amusing.”

“Today, I offer the Commonwealth's sincere apology for Virginia's participation in eugenics. We must remember the Commonwealth's past mistakes in order to prevent them from recurring.”