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

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

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.

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.

The American dream does not happen by asking Americans to accept what's immoral and wrong in the name of tolerance.

If diversity is O.K. for God, it ought to be O.K. for Republicans.

When it comes to the American dream, no one has a corner on the market. All of us have an equal chance to share in that dream.