#am

My parents taught me to never give up and to always believe that my future could be whatever I dreamt it to be. ↗

We talked about many issues, like welfare, is it the way of life or hand up? Talked about size of government, how much should it tax families and small businesses? And when we left that lunch, we got in the car and I looked over at Chuck and said, 'I'll be damned. we're Republicans.' ↗

— Susana Martinez

#businesses #car #chuck #damned #families

Growing up I never imagined a little girl from a border town could one day become a governor. But this is America. In America algo es possible. ↗

— Susana Martinez

#become #border #could #day #girl

I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They won't offer real plans, and only stand up when they want to blame someone else. ↗

— Susana Martinez

#courage #else #fear #i #leaders

I went to law school. And I became a prosecutor. I took on a specialty that very few choose to pursue. I prosecuted child abuse and child homicide cases. Cases that were truly gut-wrenching. But standing up for those kids, being their voice for justice was the honor of a lifetime. ↗

— Susana Martinez

#became #being #cases #child #child abuse

In New Mexico, I inherited the largest structural deficit in state history, and our legislature is controlled by Democrats. We don't always agree, but we came together in a bipartisan manner and turned that deficit into a surplus. And we did it without raising taxes. ↗

— Susana Martinez

#always #bipartisan #came #controlled #deficit

Success is the American Dream. And that success is not something to be ashamed of, or to demonize. ↗

— Susana Martinez

#american dream #ashamed #demonize #dream #something

Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#judge #named #poor #whoever

In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household. ↗

— Harpo Marx

#arthur #household #james #marx #minnie

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist. ↗