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

For longer than I've been involved in the political process, the Republican establishment has claimed to want to provide an alternative for the black community, yet party elite refuse to show up for the game.

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.

I never got into politics for it to be a career.

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.

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.

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.