I think you hear, at least as an undertone, and it's going to grow louder, is that we believe that capitalism is the mantra of the day and anything that creeps towards socialism is a problem.

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.

Love should never be a game.

Of this poetryI’m left with the emptinessof an endless secret

MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle.

My father once told me, and it's stuck with me to this day: As you walk through life, every time you fart it pushes you forward.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

We (the DOE) are poisoning our people in the name of national security.

Gamblers spend 10 percent less on food; 25 percent less on clothing and 35 percent less on savings

We have no idea how the subjective quality of consciousness emerges from the physical stuff of the brain.

Alcohol had a lot to do with it, too, and mental instability. All writers are narcissistic, manic-depressive drug addicts and alcoholics, and I am no exception.

When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.