Chris Wallace Grills Mark Sanford On "FOX News Sunday"
CHRIS WALLACE: Governor, let's address your personal scandal. What did you learn from it?
MARK SANFORD: You learned a lot. I would say that you probably learn more in the valleys of life than you do in the mountain tops. I learned whole new things that I'd never comprehended before with regard to God's grace, with regard to the reflective grace that comes through other human that you walk with on a daily basis.
I have to say that I learned a lot about judgment. I learned a lot about forgiveness.
I could go down the litany of different things. But I boil it down this way: you know, our minister gave a great sermon a number of months back, and his point was, do the events of your life refine or define your life?
I think in politics, you know, people want to take an event and make it definitional to your life. I think that any of these valleys or any of these bumps that we hit in the road of life either by circumstance or by own action, can be refining points, where ultimately you grow as a result of the soul-searching that comes in the wake of loss and failure.
WALLACE: You are now engaged to the woman with whom you had the affair, Maria Belen Chapur. She made a brief appearance, and we have a picture of it up on your screen at your victory party which raised some eyebrows.
Question -- what did your boys think of that? And -- your four boys, and have they accepted her?
SANFORD: I'm not going to go into inner family conversations, but I would just say it is what it is, and I'm, right now, at a weekend with one of my boys who has a whole host of different college friends here scattered across this house that I'm sitting in right now.
WALLACE: Do you have a date for your wedding and will your fiancee -- will she come to Washington to live with you? I feel like I'm "The National Enquirer"" here.
SANFORD: Exactly. Is this FOX News or "National Enquirer"? So, I'm not going to make news on that front tonight -- or this morning --
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