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.

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.

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

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

Consider in Washington, around the country today we are talking about balanced budgets, paying down our national debt, getting the economy going, defending ourselves, activist judges. Newt Gingrich did all those things when he was speaker. We got tax relief. We got balanced budgets. We got, you know, job creation. We paid down our national debt.

A Black man voting for the Republicans makes about as much sense as a chicken voting for Col. Sanders.

If you are explaining, you are losing.