My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.

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

You saw the exodus of many people on the business council, who resigned, who said those are not my personal values, those are not our corporate values, and those - we don't believe - are the values of our country.

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.

There can't be opportunity or jobs without investment and profit.

I never got into politics for it to be a career.

Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa.