Top 30 Karen Handel Quotes

I try not to look back on my life and be regretful.

My time at Komen has been well publicized and scrutinized, especially my departure over the funding of Planned Parenthood.

I think, for every phase of your life, you take something out of it, you learn from it, you grow from it. You just have to try to take what you can from it and then move on to the next phase of your life to be better.

Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.

Let me be clear: since I am pro-life, I do not support the mission of Planned Parenthood.

I think we can all agree that women deserve access to life saving, early detection procedures.

It’s tabloid. It’s 24/7 news – people get in the middle of a news cycle for 24 hours off of things that previously would never have gotten the kind of coverage that is happening.

We need to lift up the nation so we can find a more civil way to deal with our disagreements because, in these United States of America, no one should ever feel their life threatened over their political beliefs and positions.

Others do not define you – you define yourself through your words and actions.

I think that for a child to be in a household… with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.

I’m proud of the fact that I was able to overcome long odds.

I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.

It’s no secret that I’m called to a different place, maybe, for some of the beliefs in the LGBTQ community because of my faith. With that said, I’m also called to be accepting and compassionate.

I have much greater faith in the governor and the state legislature to craft a Medicaid system that is going to be the best fit for the people of Georgia rather than someone in Washington dictating it.

I’ve made it abundantly clear that I think that marriage is between a man and a woman.

I worked my way up in the private sector and implemented Georgia’s tough voter ID law.

I left home when I was just 17, finished up high school, and went to work.

I don’t want to see any taxpayer funding going towards… a couple that is not married.

I don’t think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, some of it, I believe, is very much fueled by social media and frankly, it’s fueled by the fact that journalism is not journalism any more.

In life, sometimes you just lose.

I do not support a livable wage.

No secret that for some years – long before my time – Komen was dealing with a controversy regarding Planned Parenthood grants.

What I support is moving Medicaid to block grants so that the states can drive that process.

It’s been clear for some time that FBI Director Comey has lost the confidence of Republicans, Democrats, and broader institutions, and his removal as FBI Director was probably overdue.

Some people call me scrappy – and that’s because I am.

I’ve had to be tough my whole life.

I’m a girl: that means I fight like a girl. And there ain’t nothing meaner.

I’m not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.

My pledge is to be part of the solution to focus on governing, to put my experience to work to help solve the very serious issues we’re facing in this country.

I will ensure the conservative legacy and leadership of Tom Price, Johnny Isakson, and Newt Gingrich will continue.