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

You take a poor black child. Give him a good education, tell him he's somebody, that God didn't create junk when he created him, and that black child will create his own affirmative action.

I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?

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

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

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