I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done based on one's need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid.

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

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

My father taught that the only helping hand you're ever going to be able to rely on is the one at the end of your sleeve.

We have seen the Democrat solution to an energy crisis; it's called California.

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

Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something - history's going to be kind to George W. Bush.