Education is a bipartisan issue that concern all communities of color and should be first, last and always about the student learning.

I'm secure in who I am. I don't need the validation of those that would say, you have to be a certain thing in order to be accepted. I'm comfortable going against the grain if I need to.

Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.

Education is a bipartisan issue that concern all communities of color and should be first, last and always about the student learning.

It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

A Black man voting for the Republicans makes about as much sense as a chicken voting for Col. Sanders.

In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican, with God as my witness, not one thing changed about what I believed about one man and one woman in a marriage or about diversity of color. That's a good thing.