My job is to create jobs. In the end I'm going to have jobs to show for it.

I encourage people to find and use the power of their voices just as much when I do not agree with those voices as when I do agree with them.

As I said, my parents loved that when they came to America, if you worked hard, the only things that could stop you were the limits you placed on yourself.

I wear heels. It's not for a fashion statement, it's... ammunition.

Human rights is a big important part of how to prevent conflict in the first place if we focus on how the governments are treating their people.

Do things that are uncomfortable to do. I say that because women tend to step back from things that they don't know about. And the second, most important, one is, push through the fear.

Almost forty-five years after my parents first became Americans, I stand before you and them tonight as the proud governor of the state of South Carolina.

We don't have unions in South Carolina because we don't need unions in South Carolina.

People ask the question, 'If you're offered VP, would you take it?' No, I won't take it.

The public likes to think that women only care about contraception. Contraception doesn't define a woman.That's - doesn't define our views. We're so much smarter and broader than that.

Ann Romney makes all women proud by the way she has conducted her life as a strong woman of faith, as a mother, as a wife and as a true patriot.

Do not allow yourself to act according to the flesh

Sometimes, it is best that the past stays buried.

Happiness is a necessity. It’s not a thing money can buy but a feeling that comes from within.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who is for or against it.

My book has a pre - civil rights setting with a post - civil rights sensibility. I believe less and less that there is something called "The Black Experience," though undoubtedly there was one once.

To him, who still would gaze upon the glory of the summer sun, there comes, when that sun will from him part, a sullen hopelessness of heart.

You may think you're married to a woman, but she's really an overgrown child.

While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: pluck the day, put no trust in the future

The first thing I can really tell you is I really love the work.

Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other language.