Consider in Washington, around the country today we are talking about balanced budgets, paying down our national debt, getting the economy going, defending ourselves, activist judges. Newt Gingrich did all those things when he was speaker. We got tax relief. We got balanced budgets. We got, you know, job creation. We paid down our national debt.

There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.

We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.

Well, Mark, I led the charge for five or six years to get reforms for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. I was chairman of an organization called 'FM Policy Focus.' What we were saying was, if there was blip in the housing market, Fannie and Freddie would destabilize the greatest economy in the world.

The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.

They said that I had sold out and (am an) Uncle Tom. And I said well, they deserve to have that view. But I have my thoughts. And I think they're race-hustling poverty pimps.

In addition, there is one title I cherish a great deal more than Congressman and that is the title of... Dad.