10 Questions for Nikki Haley

The youngest U.S. governor, Nikki Haley, on taxes, arranged marriages and Romney's problem with women

Javier Sirvent for TIME

In your book, Can't Is Not an Option , you say that by the age of 12 you knew the business tax code. Did you have a little bit of a tiger mom?
It was one of those things where my parents needed a bookkeeper, and they wanted us to learn the value of a dollar early. So I was doing payroll taxes by the age of 12.

Your Sikh parents arranged your sister's marriage. You declined that option. How disappointed were they?
They were disappointed. But what they saw is that no one could love me more than Michael....

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