I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ev….

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the ….

Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important..

Well, Mark, I led the charge for five or six years to get reforms for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. I was chairman of an organization called 'FM Policy….

It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go..

The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each oth….

I like to call the ethos I grew up with 'Oklahoma values.' But you'd be just as accurate if you said 'American values.' Except for our lack of a seac….

If you are explaining, you are losing..

We need to make sure that every child in America goes to a school every day that is safe, will teach them how to read and write, do arithmetic and ga….

We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena..

We have seen the Democrat solution to an energy crisis; it's called California..

To say America can have strong leadership without strong character is to say we can get water without the wet..

For longer than I've been involved in the political process, the Republican establishment has claimed to want to provide an alternative for the black….

One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it..

The American dream does not happen by asking Americans to accept what's immoral and wrong in the name of tolerance..

You saw the exodus of many people on the business council, who resigned, who said those are not my personal values, those are not our corporate value….

Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school..

You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-u….

I don't know if anybody has moved up the ladder more quickly than I have..

My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy g….

Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about repar….