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

I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that wants to continue their education, they should be able to do that.

Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.

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.

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

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

My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.