I don't know if anybody has moved up the ladder more quickly than I have.

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

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

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.

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.

My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.