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.

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.

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.

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.

In life you have friends and enemies, both can motivate you to be better.

Kindness wields a sword of light against the darkness.

What happened in Flint is immoral. The children of Flint are just as precious as the children of any other part of America.

Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.

When you want something bad enough, you work your butt off for it.

Even with mental health as well as physical health, it's about taking responsibility and knowing that you're part of the solution always.

Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God himself.

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

When you go out there to do comedy, you feel like you're doing battle with the audience a lot of the time. You're either going to get 'em, or you're not.

If there's anything you're not happy about-in your relationships, in your health, in your career-make a decision right now about how you're going to change it immediately.