KAREN HANDEL

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

Bullies always have another target.

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

I do not support a livable wage.

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.

Planned Parenthood is not the front door of women's health. Not here in the 6th District, not in the state of Georgia, and not around the country.

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.

I think it's clear that Planned Parenthood has worked to mislead the public about who they are... they do not provide mammograms. They are the middleman, or middle woman, if you will.

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

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 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.

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

In life, sometimes you just lose.

Increasing minimum wage doesn't build a stronger economy.

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

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

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

I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.

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

It's clear that Planned Parenthood went out of its way to paint me as some sort of a zealot - a Trojan-horse zealot who came into Komen and within 10 to 11 months had completely turned the place upside down. That's clearly not who I am, and it's not what happened.

Last time I checked, private nonprofit organizations have a right and a responsibility to be able to set the highest standards and criteria on their own without interference, let alone the level of vicious attacks and coercion that has occurred by Planned Parenthood.

Hard work and making the most of life - that's what makes Georgians great.

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.

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.