All of my policy is not based on a label. It's based on what I lived and what I know.

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.

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

A net of words, he said at last, is more powerful than a net of rope.

The nation was not founded by habitual groupthinkers. But it stands a fair chance of being destroyed by them.

No one's ever completely broken. It's just a matter of how much has to fall apart before the ember of life is exposed to air.

There is a place in Hell called the Malebolge.

The ignorance of French society gives one a rough sense of the infinite.

She is Living and I'm Dead, but I'd like to believe we're both human. Call me an idealist.

The revolution is the war of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty when victorious and peaceable.

Power is what they like - it is the greatest of all aphrodisiacs.

But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.

Without English art, I never would have understood myself, my own family, or the New England world I lived in.