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.

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

The past two decades revolutionized the way we access information. You and I can have our questions answered with the click of a mouse at any time of day. If America, both corporation and citizen alike, can use these services to solve problems, why can't Washington?

In 2008, as a matter of fact, I had people accusing me of being a Senator Obama supporter because I wouldn't slam him. I said, 'Well, consider the fact that I voted for impeachment for President Clinton, but it wasn't a personal vote. I voted based on the facts and the law and the Constitution and what we were dealing with.'

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

I would caution all of us or I would remind all of us that any candidate that we support, they are going to be flawed.

Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something - history's going to be kind to George W. Bush.