When it comes to the American dream, no one has a corner on the market. All of us have an equal chance to share in that dream.
I think the Republican Party should be a pro-life party. I am pro-life. I do not apologize for that. On the flip side of that coin, the Republican Party has been big enough to allow pro-choice advocates to be heard.
There is a war being waged right now on prayer and religion by liberals who are taking every opportunity to make America as God-less as possible.
As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure.
Too many Americans live by Republican principles of faith, family, hope and opportunity, but vote for Democrats out of sheer habit.
You take a poor black child. Give him a good education, tell him he’s somebody, that God didn’t create junk when he created him, and that black child will create his own affirmative action.
I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don’t support Republicans is because they don’t trust the GOP establishment.
I still get to preach 14, 15 times a year. But you have to make a living.
We have seen the Democrat solution to an energy crisis; it’s called California.
To say America can have strong leadership without strong character is to say we can get water without the wet.
Republicans think that the NAACP is the only voice in the black community. It is a voice in the black community. But it’s not the only voice.
Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That’s not a bad thing in and of itself.
I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don’t want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.
I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you’re a Democrat. Sometimes that’s good, obviously, and sometimes that’s obviously bad. But in the news business, there’s no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.
The American dream does not happen by asking Americans to accept what’s immoral and wrong in the name of tolerance.
Well, Mark, I led the charge for five or six years to get reforms for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. I was chairman of an organization called ‘FM Policy Focus.’ What we were saying was, if there was blip in the housing market, Fannie and Freddie would destabilize the greatest economy in the world.
I don’t know if anybody has moved up the ladder more quickly than I have.
Good policy makes good politics and what I’ve done has been good politics.
Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.
We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn’t want to take the humanness out of the political arena.