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

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?

I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.

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

I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that wants to continue their education, they should be able to do that.

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

There is a direct correlation between education, stable families and incarceration and crime.