I don't want to be a politician. I want to be a leader.

My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.

My parents taught me to never give up and to always believe that my future could be whatever I dreamt it to be.

Success is the American Dream. And that success is not something to be ashamed of, or to demonize.

I've known where my heritage is from all along.

Growing up I never imagined a little girl from a border town could one day become a governor. But this is America. In America algo es possible.

Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fear.

At 18, I guarded the parking lot at the Catholic Church bingos. Now my dad made sure I could take care of myself. I carried a Smith and Wesson 357 Magnum .

New Mexico is an environment where we are open for business.

Success, they taught me, is built on the foundation of courage, hard-work and individual responsibility. Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fears.

I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They won't offer real plans, and only stand up when they want to blame someone else.

I've decided to be happy because it's good for my health.

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us!

The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth.

Talent on its own sat gracefully only on the very young. After a certain age it was what you did with it that counted.

Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.

One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The law of unintended consequences is the only real law of history.

Source reduction is, on the face it, perhaps the most appealing of all the possible approaches to solid-waste management.