The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.

The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education.

You cannot create employees without first creating employers.

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.

Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it.

The chance to own a home; chance to own an education; chance to get access to capital. This is the real civil rights battle of the twenty-first century.