I was soon drawn to the Republican Party because I realized that it truly, not just rhetorically, believed in equality.

I think serving your government is the greatest thing in the world.

America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color you are.

They take pride in their schools. They begin to participate, where, when they are renters, they don't do that. So what we're doing by this program is strengthening America.

And I'm the kind of manager that doesn't believe that you micro-manage professionals. They should understand their responsibility and carry out those responsibility.

In 1965, I marched for equality.

You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.