America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.

Whoever controls the education of our children controls the future.

I learned a long time ago that I can't control the challenges the creator sends my way, but I can control the way I think about them and deal with them

America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.

I think the most important issue we have as a people is what we started, and that is to begin to trust our own thinking again and belive in ourselves enough to think that we can articulate our own vision of the future and then work to make sure that that vision becomes a reality.

It should be remembered that hundreds of people of African ancestry also walked the Trail of Tears with the Cherokee during the forced removal of 1838-1839. Although we know about the terrible human suffering of our native people and the members of other tribes during the removal, we rarely hear of those black people who also suffered.

Every single person has leadership ability. Some step up and take them. Some don't. My answer was to step up and lead.