We need to make sure that every child in America goes to a school every day that is safe, will teach them how to read and write, do arithmetic and gain the computer skills necessary to allow them to compete in the global marketplace. If we can get that through the public schools, fine. If we can't, I'm all for parental choice in education to allow that parent to take his/her/their child to a school that is safe and teaches them, even if it is a faith-based school!

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

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

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

There is a direct correlation between education, stable families and incarceration and crime.

Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.

Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from.