When you are going through something like compaign run nothing happens without Allah's permission. So a lot of the times you just have to surrender to his will and learning how to surrender was a major thing for me, getting me out of the way, surrendering to the will of God.

I was never fearful or scared. I knew God had me and my wife and children knew it as well so we just marched.

Character issues such as drug abuse are not exclusive to Detroit Public Schools. My reference to substance abuse, not intended to focus on any particular school district, was simply used to illustrate this position.

The job of being president, understanding the particular policies that America has gotten itself into over the past 400 years.

We do need brothers and sisters to go into elected offices and political offices and do that, but my spirit is telling me something different. Because you are a Democrat or Republican you have to do this but you can't do that and so it's somewhat limiting in what you can actually do and I've done that.

I heard somebody say that you can't judge a tree by the bark it wears but by the fruit it bears.

I was building the plane while flying it in the first term.