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I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.

Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.

Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics.

The University of North Carolina-Greensboro has ordered a Christian club to allow non-Christians as leaders. While we're at it, let's put high school dropouts in charge of the University.

Increased funding for the Weatherization Assistance Program is a priority for the Bush Administration, and I am pleased that many families in North Carolina will benefit from this increase.

Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big.

I randomly went to a casting session in my hometown in North Carolina, and the casting director introduced me to my manager. I really lucked into it!

It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.

I'm a pretty low-key North Carolina boy. I like to go fishing and hang out with my friends.

We must remember that North Carolina is more than a collection of regions and people. We are one state, one people, one family, bound by a common concern for each other.

North Carolina, particularly the 8th District, has long played a key role in our Nation's military forces.

No matter where you put me, I don't care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York City; I'm going to be who I am.

The University of North Carolina provided me with every tool necessary to rise to the top of my profession.

I made a ridiculous statement when I first went to North Carolina State. I said I know basketball down there was like life or death. It was very wrong. It's more important.

This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones.

NC passed law against global warming science, therefore it's not happening. So I'm ignoring Twitter's 140-character limit, so it's not happ

I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.

My music came up from the soil of North Carolina.

I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple.

I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

I have had almost every job under the sun, it feels like. One of the first jobs I took was as a door-to-door pest control salesman in Raleigh, North Carolina.

I never imagined anybody would ever come out to hear me preach. I'm just a country dairy farmer from North Carolina.

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.

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.

As Governor of North Carolina for two terms, I made improving education a top priority.

We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, it's in our blood to drink coffee and talk politics.

North Carolina used to be reliably red. Now it's a battleground state.

North Carolina was never a battleground state until recently. Now it is, and it's because of migration from the Northeast.

People will always go to games. And not just Duke versus North Carolina. Even Appalachian State against Chatworth.

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

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.

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

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.