Nikki Haley Quotes

My parents started a business out of the living room of our home and, 30-plus years later, it was a multimillion dollar company. So, President Obama, with all due respect, don't tell me that my parents didn't build their business.

My job is to create jobs. In the end I'm going to have jobs to show for it.

In 2009, South Carolina was blessed to welcome a great American company that chose to stay in our country to continue to do business. That company was Boeing.

I've never been a planner. I didn't know I was going to run for the State House. I didn't know I was going to run for governor. I don't know what's next, and I love not thinking about it because the doors open at a certain time.

I'm very proud of the way that I was raised, I'm very proud of the way that my parents raised me.

I'm not going to stop beating up on the unions.

I'm not going to stop beating up on the Democrats for wasteful spending.

I'm a huge fan of women; I think we're great.

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

I think the media's a little frightened of women.

I think that we are at a point in our country where we're trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena.

I think any label is bad. I'm more than a label.

I think any label is bad.

I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.

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.

I don't think we should focus on what church that person walks into .. I think we need to focus on what they do when they walk out of church.

For a bill to become law, it truly has to be the will of the people, and for a president to stop the will of the people and stop what you're trying to do in your state is not the role of Washington.

Contraception doesn't define a woman.

Boeing started a new line for their 787 Dreamliner, creating 1,000 new jobs in South Carolina, giving our state a shot in the arm when we truly needed it.

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.

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.

American businesses deserve a federal government that doesn't stand in their way, not one that tries to chase them overseas.

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.

All of my policy is not based on a label. It's based on what I lived and what I know.

Everyone can have a bad day.