I believe there is nothing we endure in life that you can't recover from. Failure is not fatal. Everyone has the capacity to fail up.

Loving your enemy is a radical concept.

Struggling to stay in the middle class, and I love that. That's me and my dad and my family.

Democrats, too often, take blacks for granted, and Republicans, too often, simply ignore black voters.

I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, "the soft bigotry of low expectations."

This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

What determines your altitude in life is your attitude.