I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They won't offer real plans, and only stand up when they want to blame someone else.

My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.

My parents taught me to never give up and to always believe that my future could be whatever I dreamt it to be.

Success is the American Dream. And that success is not something to be ashamed of, or to demonize.

I've known where my heritage is from all along.

Growing up I never imagined a little girl from a border town could one day become a governor. But this is America. In America algo es possible.

Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fear.

At 18, I guarded the parking lot at the Catholic Church bingos. Now my dad made sure I could take care of myself. I carried a Smith and Wesson 357 Magnum .

New Mexico is an environment where we are open for business.

Success, they taught me, is built on the foundation of courage, hard-work and individual responsibility. Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fears.

I don't want to be a politician. I want to be a leader.

Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.

It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol' Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense.

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

It was the joy of admiration and of one's own ability, growing together.

To learn from experience, we must remember it, and, for a variety of reasons, memory is a faithless friend.

The little bit you and me might change the world," Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we were dead. We'd never see it." "But it'd be there.

Show me what a man hates and I'll show you what he is.

If you despise the mountains you have climbed, you are not welcomed by the mountains you have not yet climbed!

No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner.

We live in a community of people not so that we can suppress and dominate eachother or make each other miserable but so that we can better and more reliably satisfy all life's healthy needs.