Sometimes Republicans engage in number-crunching analysis that doesn't always take the neediest into account.

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.

Embrace faith, hope and love.

Avoid having to pump your brakes by keeping your flow on cruise control.

With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still young and can have the bright future they deserve.

Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.

Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.

It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.

Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.

Popularity is not leadership.

We don't forget, but something vacant settles in us.

God is absolutely good; and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good.