The public likes to think that women only care about contraception.

What we are is serious. And you see us in action, so it's not in personas. It's in actions and it's what we do. And that's why Russia was left on an island when it came to Syria. Everyone else isolated them with their connection with Bashar Assad and Iran.

I was never that kid that wanted to be in politics. What happened was, I graduated with a degree in accounting. I came back home to the family business. I saw how hard it was to make a ­dollar, and how easy it was for the government to take it. And my mom said, "Quit complaining about it. Do something about it."

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

We don't have unions in South Carolina because we don't need unions in South Carolina.

South Carolinians are strong, independently-minded people. At the end of the day, they make their own decisions. And I respect them for that. And I welcome that. And I told him that from the very beginning.

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.