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

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

The reason I actually ran for office is because of Hillary Clinton. Everybody was telling me why I shouldn't run: I was too young, I had small children, I should start at the school board level.

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 wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House.

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.