As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure.

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

You take a poor black child. Give him a good education, tell him he's somebody, that God didn't create junk when he created him, and that black child will create his own affirmative action.

Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.

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 community, yet party elite refuse to show up for the game.

I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.

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.