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?

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.

There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.

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

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.

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.

There can't be opportunity or jobs without investment and profit.