I wear heels. It's not for a fashion statement, it's... ammunition.

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.

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.

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.

The passive voice could always be used to obscure blame.

Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves.

If experience was so important, we'd never have had anyone walk on the moon.

I didn't choose painting, it chose me.I didn't have a talent,i just had genius

Changing my name was meant to inspire and bring youth together all around the world.

Again, President Reagan was sort of an amiable presence out at the ranch by the last 6 months of his presidency. He had no effect on national policy at all.

I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree to suffer the people to be educated.

So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier.

Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.