I registered Democrat because my parents did. They were, we were. There was no thinking behind it.

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.

The first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a free falling body was Father Giambattista Riccioli.

I usually don't like to 'spoon feed' my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

I could be anything but for the faults that I've acquired on my way.

An unrecorded goal is only a wish.

CPR to those elements of what’s human and magical that still live and glow despite the times’ darkness.

In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.

If the human being is condemned and restricted to perform the same functions over and over again, he will not even be a good ant, not to mention a good human being.

I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.

Not being able to think of a reply is not the same thing as accepting another's words.

I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.