As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district, the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not have, rein in spending, live within a budget.

South Carolina is a great place to be from.

We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.

My three P's would be pray, pray first. Second, prepare, and then persist.

I think the nation as a whole has a role in making sure that each individual, each citizen maximizes one's potential.

Ensuring fairness in the American workplace should be a cornerstone of our economic policy.

Just it's as close to magic as you can get in America, education.

The fact of the matter is that hope comes from many sources. I think depending on the federal government to be some sort of a savior is false hope.

We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.

I have campaigned all over the state of South Carolina. It is the friendliest state in the country. And truly here people judge you by the content of your character not the color of your skin.

I think about my grandfather who's 89 years old, and the last thing he needs is more money out of his pocket.

A pleasant letter I hold to be the pleasantest thing that this world has to give.

I've been to 57 states.

I love Atlanta. It's a great city with great crews there.

'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit.

I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.

In the education of women, the cultivation of the understanding is always subordinate to the acquirement of some corporeal accomplishment.

No power on this earth can destroy the thirst for human dignity

I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.

I love playing people who don't have a sense of humor for instance, there's nothing funnier to me than a person with no sense of humor.

A lot of times, we're waiting for God to do what God is waiting for us to do.