Diane Hendricks

We need to get out of the way of the small business owner - and big business owners - and allow them to do what government can only dream of doing: creating jobs and thereby creating wealth. ”

Talk to successful entrepreneurs. Learn about what they've experienced so you can avoid some of the pitfalls that come with wealth. ”

If we just go back to the basics... I do not want to give up our republic and become a socialistic ideological nation. That's not who we are. ”

I'm in a male-dominated industry. ”

Did we ever plan on being billionaires? No, but we wanted to be millionaires. ”

I became pregnant by my first love at 17 and did what my parents thought was the right thing. I married him. My first husband and I moved to Janesville, Wis., where he worked in a Chrysler plant. ”

I don't have heroes, exactly, but I do have people I hold in high respect. Ronald Reagan, for example, stood for ideals that I value: integrity, patriotism and a fundamental belief in goodness and capabilities of mankind. ”

People have lost what this nation was built on. I think our core values have been set aside... I believe in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights. ”

When I was 9, we moved to Osseo, Wis., where we owned a couple of hundred acres. My father was well respected in town. ”

It's sad that we vote for and elect officials to run our state, run our country, over social issues. I don't believe they belong in politics. ”