Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking..

My father taught that the only helping hand you're ever going to be able to rely on is the one at the end of your sleeve..

There is a direct correlation between education, stable families and incarceration and crime..

Consider in Washington, around the country today we are talking about balanced budgets, paying down our national debt, getting the economy going, def….

I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community. There's a lot of different voices that need to be h….

Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa..

I would caution all of us or I would remind all of us that any candidate that we support, they are going to be flawed..

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

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

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….

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….

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

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 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….

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….

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….

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

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….

In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor r….

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 ….

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….