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

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

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

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.

Death and taxes may be inevitable, but they shouldn't be related.

We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.

Too many Americans live by Republican principles of faith, family, hope and opportunity, but vote for Democrats out of sheer habit.