I can't hide my feelings.

Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.

Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.

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.

All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.

There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.

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.