The Republican Party is terrific at determining how a program will impact the federal budget, but we're not nearly as good as the Democrats in explaining to people how our agenda will directly benefit them and their families.

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

In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.

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

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

I would caution all of us or I would remind all of us that any candidate that we support, they are going to be flawed.

It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.