Carolina Quote by Nikki Haley

“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.”

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I'm very proud of the way that I was raised, I'm very proud of the way that my parents raised me.

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

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Government was intended to secure the rights and freedoms of the people; it wasn't intended to be all things to all people.

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