Carolina Quotes

When I went through Marine boot camp in Paris Island, South Carolina, we actually did have bayonets that we trained with.

Michael Jordan always wore his Carolina shorts under his Bulls' uniform.

North Carolina's approach in crafting its law ensured the creation of the best possible law and, consequently, North Carolina is now the acknowledged leader in addressing predatory lending.

I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?

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.

The first American insurance company was the Friendly Society for the Mutual Insurance of Houses Against Fire, founded in Charles Town in South Carolina, in 1735.

Well, I'm from the South originally. I grew up in South Carolina definitely learning about manners and being proper and having to go to cotillions.

Republicans woke up Sunday with an undeniable reality. Donald Trump's the clear front-runner now for their party's nomination. Trump, celebrated, of course, his big win in South Carolina.

We don't have to make toys that are coated with lead paint in China. We can make good toys in Alabama and North Carolina.

Thousands of dead fish have now washed up on shore along the coast of South Carolina. Today the NRA said that this wouldn't have happened if those fish had guns.

Donald Trump has more delegates than anybody. He won all 50 delegates in South Carolina. He's got a strong lead.

Protests are fine. But in South Carolina we believe in the rule of law, and the people of this state should never doubt that as governor, I will enforce it.

Boeing started a new line for their 787 Dreamliner, creating 1,000 new jobs in South Carolina, giving our state a shot in the arm when we truly needed it.

If I weren't playing baseball, I would be a radio or sports broadcaster. In college at South Carolina I did some stuff with the radio station and really liked it.

And I spilled gravy on my Carolina sweater, because I am alive.

Back home in South Carolina, you have a lot of little soul food restaurants you can run to and get some quick, decent food.

I originally worked as an archaeologist in North Carolina, and when bones were found police would take them out to the bones lady at the university, and that was me.

I'd never get elected if people in North Carolina realized how liberal I am.

I have a lot of friends in South Carolina.

I live in Cullowhee, North Carolina. That's where I teach, at Western Carolina University. That region is where my family has lived for a long time and that region is my landscape.

North Carolina precinct chairman and GOP executive committee member Don Yelton thinks his state's new voting restrictions are just fine.

I think you had the GOP down there in North Carolina reaching out to African-American voters and this guy coming on television and using the N-word and saying what Don Yelton said.

I went to college at North Carolina School of the Arts and took a lot of singing classes, and it really is so connected to emotions.

Yet civil rights issues are very much on the front burner in South Carolina between the Black Lives Matter movement and police shootings.

Well, I was born in Louisiana, but I grew up in South Carolina, which both are definitely very different than LA, but I miss the thunderstorms.

Throughout my many years of service to the people of North Carolina, I have always tried to treat people from all viewpoints with respect.

South Carolina State Rep. Mike Pitts wants to ban money.

No Republican has ever won South Carolina and Iowa or New Hampshire, as Trump has, without going on to win the nomination.

Because I'm from North Carolina, you think I'm the Andy Griffith show, or something?

How many of you think it is time for American to stop pretending we are not Christian? If there's people in King, North Carolina who don't like that, there's lots of places you can move to.

Say what you will about the south, but in North Carolina a hot dog is free to swing anyway it wishes.

Hillary Clinton wants to approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership; that deal will be a disaster for North Carolina, for every state. Your state.

The country is in tremendous trouble.You know this in North Carolina, because you see what's happening to your jobs, they're disappearing.

North Carolina's industrial workers have been crushed by Bill Clinton's signing of NAFTA supported by crooked Hillary Clinton.

I think it's important to understand that North Carolina has been ground zero for conservative backlash.

I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was Landfall.

Over the years, I've traveled to many places for inspiration and research, including Pennsylvania, Ohio, South Carolina, California, and Hawaii.

I'm a Third World person. I grew up in an occupied zone [Greenville, South Carolina] and had to negotiate with the superpower, really the colonial power.

I have been on shop floors. I have talked to a lot of the companies that create jobs in South Carolina and across the country. And what they want is less regulation.

I grew up in North Carolina being told that the Bible approves slavery and segregation, that it was the will of God.

In South Carolina, Senator John Edwards won handily, fulfilling his promise to win every state he was born in.

North Carolina is a fascinating state, because you've got these urban areas. You've got the Piedmont Triangle - Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point.

I need to be looking at what's important in North Carolina, and you better believe that's what I will do.

Becka might have been average in L.A., but average in L.A. is Queen of Mars in the visiting room of a federal penitentiary in North Carolina.

I grew up in North Carolina, and I grew up on wrestling.

It's almost therapeutic driving there and driving back (to North Carolina), with the time you get to think about things as well as create checklists.

I've been elected numerous times in South Carolina. If I'm on the ballot, I'm going to win South Carolina.

I'm from South Carolina, so I know what it's like to be accused of being a conservative from the South. And I know that to some people that means more than you're a conservative from the South.

North Carolina is an amazing place. It has the best food, and also has folks fighting really hard for what's right.

As you may know, previously as Attorney General and now as Governor, I have supported legislation to close the gun show loophole in North Carolina.