Politician Quotes

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.

You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.

You can get on with your job. I'm going to get on with mine. And mine is to deliver for the people of Northern Ireland, that's what they expect from me and I'm not going to be deflected by interesting academic or media speculation or attempts to take the whole debate back.

When you look at what I've done here, you see a consistent theme of reforms which is not driven by any dogma from across the water, but a radical agenda to make sure Northern Ireland's people enjoy equal opportunities, driven by the values of social justice.

What's crucial is that the IRA produce a credible statement that paramilitary and criminality activity is a thing of the past. That they are committed to a future which is exclusively peaceful and democratic.

What my job is, is to get on with getting the process of democratic politics, back on the road, entrenching the peace settlement, and I ask you to judge me on my record.

We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature.

We now have a political process, we've had a period of parties that have been fighting each other quite literally with bombs and bullets, talking to each other, and having sat together in the assembly and sharing government with each other.

There will be no support in the island of Ireland for building a nuclear power station.

The big missing part of the jig-saw is to get the assembly back up and running here in Northern Ireland, to get shared government back in business, that is my objective, and we await the IRA statement to see if this will trigger a new dawn.

That Sinn Fein, as I've already indicated, their leaders have already indicated that's what they want to achieve - once we get that credible statement, then we can get around the table and start to move forward, and I'm confident we can do so.

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