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Quotes About South Carolina

I grew up in a household where a missed day of work meant bills were not paid, I've lived through the stress that confronts many South Carolina families.
~ Jaime Harrison
In 2020, no child should go hungry, and yet, in South Carolina 1-in-5 children do.
~ Jaime Harrison
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.
~ Nikki Haley
There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.
~ Jasper Johns
I represented the 4th District of South Carolina... from the election '92 until election '98. And then I was out six years and then came back for another six years between the election 2004 and the election 2010.
~ Bob Inglis
I fight for the things that I care about, which are jobs and the economy. I fight for the things I think are important, which are reducing the debt and getting more companies to come to South Carolina.
~ Nikki Haley
God bless the people of the State of South Carolina.
~ Nikki Haley
I grew up in a small town in coastal South Carolina. Where I'm from, the people are known as Gullah people. They're some of the first freed slaves that lived on their own, without being attached to the rest of the U.S.
~ Brian Stelfreeze
I'm Egyptian, and my parents stupidly decided to move us down to South Carolina when I was five, which was pretty brutal.
~ Sam Esmail
I'm from South Carolina. I'm from a real cultured state, where there's still racism daily. Still, places are segregated.
~ DeAndre Hopkins
My family, like many families here in South Carolina, have faced difficult financial situations.
~ Jaime Harrison
South Carolina is more of a conservative state than a Republican state.
~ Jaime Harrison
From the end of Reconstruction through the civil rights revolution, the South was an almost uniformly Democratic region. In 1936, for example, Franklin Roosevelt won more than 98 percent of the vote in South Carolina.
~ Steve Kornacki
did not stop the mass importation of kidnapped Africans, who by 1710 already outnumbered whites in South Carolina.
~ Carol Anderson
Whether they trusted them or not, the plantation owners voiced concerns that if they didn't use "great caution … our slaves when armed might become our masters." 31 South Carolina then formally merged the separate slave patrol with the militia to strengthen the colony's internal and external defenses.
~ Carol Anderson
filled with flawed characters, and brimming with emotion. Set in Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, this book takes me home and is both deeply personal and intensely satisfying, in terms of pushing the storytelling envelope. In a sense, I've opened a vein with Zoe's story. I hope you'll enjoy her and pull for her as
~ Tanya Anne Crosby
whom I first had the pleasure of working with while at Avon Books. It's also my very first non-genre novel, although you will find it a signature Tanya Anne Crosby read, filled with flawed characters, and brimming with emotion. Set in Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, this book takes me home and is both deeply personal and intensely satisfying, in terms of pushing the storytelling envelope. In a sense, I've opened a vein with Zoe's
~ Tanya Anne Crosby
Lindsey Graham has wavered on this, but I won't: We need to ban offshore drilling. A spill off our beaches would destroy jobs and harm the coastal environment that makes South Carolina beautiful.
~ Jaime Harrison
He famously said of secession, a notion raised often over cigars and brandy, that "South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.
~ Christopher Dickey
Other nations, especially those enlightened and more old-fashioned in their notions, rebel, fight, and die for Liberty," wrote Bunch, while South Carolina "is prepared to do the same for slavery.
~ Christopher Dickey
Hillary Clinton, who followed her heart to Arkansas, understands that the American Dream extends beyond the Mason-Dixon line and that South Carolina's motto, 'While I breathe, I hope,' applies to all.
~ Jaime Harrison
A South Carolina native, Miles was a lawyer, a mayor of Charleston, and a congressman. He was one of his state's fire-eaters, a term applied to men who openly advocated secession rather than finding accomodation with the Union in the summer and fall of 1860.
~ Clint Johnson
Proper driving etiquette demands that you basically get close enough to a car in front of you at a busy intersection that it would mean that in certain third-world countries, or South Carolina, you would have to get married.
~ Celia Rivenbark
On September 26, 1789, members debated a resolution introduced by Aedanus Burke of South Carolina, charging journalists with having "misrepresented these debates in the most glaring deviations from truth," and with "throwing over the whole proceedings a thick veil of misrepresentation and error.
~ Charles Slack