I see myself as a person who wants to serve the constituents within my district and find a way to move those who are not in our position philosophically to our position.

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.

That's just how time travel looks like to the untrained eye. The reason why there aren't more travelers is that your average physicist refuses to be eaten by a giraffe in the name of science.

Don't they understand what fiction is?

I was 23, and he was 86. I saw a very sick man. I just wanted to just talk with him. There was no physical attraction at all. He was very much attracted to me.

...but I also can't prove that mushrooms could not be intergalactic spaceships spying on us.

The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution.

That's the biggest gift I can give anybody: 'Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you're doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.'

It's so rare to see a woman's sexuality, real female sexuality, either in the shows or in the clothes.

Water is more precious than oil. Both are more precious than music. Music won't heat a house or help a plant to grow.

I think every script has meaningful messages no matter what it is, because inherently life is full of meaning and every single day we lean a lesson.