Well, Mark, I led the charge for five or six years to get reforms for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. I was chairman of an organization called 'FM Policy Focus.' What we were saying was, if there was blip in the housing market, Fannie and Freddie would destabilize the greatest economy in the world.

In addition, there is one title I cherish a great deal more than Congressman and that is the title of... Dad.

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

There is a direct correlation between education, stable families and incarceration and crime.

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.

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.

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