Hope fills the holes of my frustration in my heart.

God did not burden the United States with a diversity of backgrounds, ideas and religions, He blessed America with them.

Community colleges need to be upgraded. We got to have training for real jobs. We've got a lot of jobs that are going unfilled because we don't have the technology in the heads of graduating college students to deal with them.

I have family in Tanzania. I can't even explain the joy of riding through the Tanzania national park and seeing giraffes run across the road and elephants over in a pond and baboons running.

First of all, do I think there's some racists in the Tea Party? Yeah. I'm an ordained United Methodist pastor; there's some racists in the Methodist church. I don't know if there's a body that does not have some racists in it.

We can be fervent in our disagreements without being factitious with our beliefs.

Social Security is a covenant that should not be broken.