I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.

I'm for economic independence.

Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us.

The problem is, the Republican Party hasn't done anything to make this country better and I speak as a Republican.

Anybody who runs for president in this country and comes out as strong as the Democrats were about helping the poor folks and black folks is not going to win.

So I'm in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else.

Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.