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

I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done based on one's need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid.

If diversity is O.K. for God, it ought to be O.K. for Republicans.

I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.

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

It takes a lot of strength to let go.

The American dream does not happen by asking Americans to accept what's immoral and wrong in the name of tolerance.