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

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?

Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.

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

We have seen the Democrat solution to an energy crisis; it's called California.

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.

Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from.