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

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.

Too many Americans live by Republican principles of faith, family, hope and opportunity, but vote for Democrats out of sheer habit.

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

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.

Americans are hungry for a discussion on policy solutions to the problems in their communities that work.

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