North Carolina used to be reliably red. Now it's a battleground state.
I live in Cullowhee, North Carolina. That's where I teach, at Western Carolina University. That region is where my family has lived for a long time and that region is my landscape.
What right does the US have to do anything in Colombia? Does Colombia have the right to bomb North Carolina? There are more Colombians dying from tobacco than Americans dying from heroin.
As Governor of North Carolina for two terms, I made improving education a top priority.
As you may know, previously as Attorney General and now as Governor, I have supported legislation to close the gun show loophole in North Carolina.
North Carolina is an amazing place. It has the best food, and also has folks fighting really hard for what's right.
It's almost therapeutic driving there and driving back (to North Carolina), with the time you get to think about things as well as create checklists.
I grew up in North Carolina, and I grew up on wrestling.
Becka might have been average in L.A., but average in L.A. is Queen of Mars in the visiting room of a federal penitentiary in North Carolina.
I need to be looking at what's important in North Carolina, and you better believe that's what I will do.
North Carolina is a fascinating state, because you've got these urban areas. You've got the Piedmont Triangle - Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point.
I grew up in North Carolina being told that the Bible approves slavery and segregation, that it was the will of God.
North Carolina was on the vanguard of being for [ trans rights ], and that's why we're seeing this push back. The conservatives noticed that there had been a lot of progress and they tried to tamp it down.
I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was Landfall.
I went to what is known as, and was at that time, too, Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. In fact, because of the lack of public school facilities, I began there. I began boarding school at the high school level; in fact, a year below the high school level.
North Carolina's industrial workers have been crushed by Bill Clinton's signing of NAFTA supported by crooked Hillary Clinton.
The country is in tremendous trouble.You know this in North Carolina, because you see what's happening to your jobs, they're disappearing.
Hillary Clinton wants to approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership; that deal will be a disaster for North Carolina, for every state. Your state.
I'd never get elected if people in North Carolina realized how liberal I am.
North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving.
Because I'm from North Carolina, you think I'm the Andy Griffith show, or something?
Being from North Carolina, it's kind of slow-paced. There's not too much going on there, whereas in New Orleans, there's always something going on. I just love all the people, going out to dinner and enjoying anything I want.
I have spent a good part of my life looking for the perfect barbecue. There is no point in looking in places like Texas, where they put some kind of ketchup on beef and call it barbecue. Barbecue is pork, which narrows the search to the South, and if it's really good pork barbecue you are looking for, to North Carolina.
I met people when we lived down in Raleigh who'd ask where I grew up, and I'd say about two hours west of Asheville, and they'd say they didn't know there was any North Carolina two hours west of Asheville. It was in many ways an isolated place.
Throughout my many years of service to the people of North Carolina, I have always tried to treat people from all viewpoints with respect.
