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As A Kid Who Failed Out Of High School As A Freshman, I Know Firsthand And Personally That Sense Of Hopelessness And Just Being - Drifting In The Wrong Direction, Having Really No Hope. And Being Able To Harness That Frustration Was Incredibly Valuable In My Life. That's One Of The Reasons I Focus So Consistently On The Foundation Of Education, Because It Helps To Eviscerate Those Things That - Unemployment, High Jobless Rates, Poverty.

We Do Not Have A Revenue Problem In D.c. Or This County. We Have A Prioritization Problem. When You Create The Priorities You Fund The Priorities Of The Country And You Stop Spending Money When You Get To Zero.

One Of The Things That Perhaps We Can Learn Through The Political Process About Bringing People Together Is To Remember South Carolina, Remember The Families Of The Nine Victims, How They Brought A Community Together During The Worst Atrocity In Our State's History, I Am Thankful That I Live In A Country Where Forgiveness Can Be Seen In The Worst Of Conditions.

My Three P's Would Be Pray, Pray First. Second, Prepare, And Then Persist.

I Was Warmly Embraced By The Tea Party. They Openly Seek More Minorities.