The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.

Sometimes in this country, we don't focus a lot on people's experience and their resume. Mitt Romney would be the most experienced executive to be nominated since 1952. The fundamental task for the next president is going to be fixing things, cleaning things up, being a turnaround artist, if you will.

Well, one of the things a lot of Americans don't know, when Mitt Romney is nominated a few days from now, he will be the most experienced executive to be nominated for the presidency since Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, who had run a university and had run the allied war effort. That's actually a big deal.

I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white.

Wearing a Democratic label no longer matches what I know about my country and its possibilities.

I know 100 percent what it's like to have people tell you that you can't hold an office because of your color, and to have people vote based on that belief.

The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.