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

Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.

It takes a lot of strength to let go.

My father taught that the only helping hand you're ever going to be able to rely on is the one at the end of your sleeve.

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.'

I was taught to respect everyone for the simple reason that we're all God's children. I was taught, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.... to judge a man not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character. And I was taught that character...is simply doing what's right when nobody's looking.

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