Quotes By Nikki Haley

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

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.

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 think the media's a little frightened of women.

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.

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

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

I think any label is bad.

The people of South Carolina support conservatives who are trying to push real change, and the people of South Carolina expect their presidential candidates to back them up when they show courage.

There is no war on women. Women are doing well. But women are thoughtful. And what we in the Republican Party and across the country, Republican, Independents and Democrat women say is we're more thoughtful than a label. We care about jobs and the economy and healthcare and education. We care about a lot of different things.

Contraception doesn't define a woman.

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.

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

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.

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.

Protests are fine. But in South Carolina we believe in the rule of law, and the people of this state should never doubt that as governor, I will enforce it.

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

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

People ask the question, 'If you're offered VP, would you take it?' No, I won't take it.

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.

This is America. Anyone is free to protest about anything they want.

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

Everyone can have a bad day.

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.

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.

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.

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

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