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.

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.

You don't go to the people that are just like you. You go to the people that you have to earn their credit.

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.

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

I assume I'm being taped everywhere, so I never worry about that.

Our country will need real leadership to undo President Obama's failed policies, and replace them with the conservative principles Mitt Romney learned turning around businesses and a failing Olympics and successfully, conservatively governing a Democratic state. I am proud to endorse him and will work my hardest to ensure he is elected so we can turn around our country.