Conservative principles place growth and opportunity at the forefront, and I look forward to the RNC continuing to promote those values in communities across the nation as we grow the party.

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.

If it has failure written all over it, it's definitely not your portion in life.

I don't think rock 'n roll is necessarily a young man's game. I think Neil Young is just as rock'n'roll now as he was in his 20s. I'd like to think we can still be edgy and challenging.

I had tremendous fun fooling around with the way people talked about songs, just the way that became another way of understanding the world.

What I have learned about the sport of cycling is that you have to love it to do it because you're not going to retire off of it.

Flaws make us all human, and you're rooting for characters because of those flaws. It's ageless if you're interested in relationships and the way people can or can't relate to each other.

Spirituality is not about being fixed; it is about God's being present in the mess of our unfixedness. (Messy Spirituality)

I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him.

Every shot has its commission, d'ye see? We must all die at one time, as the saying is.

Every day two million Americans play tennis and one million of them lose.

I've been influenced by someone or [English artists] work. I mentioned Hans Coper as an example.