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

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

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

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

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.

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.