I know 100 percent what it's like to have people tell you that you can't hold an office because of your color, and to have people vote based on that belief.

The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.

Wearing a Democratic label no longer matches what I know about my country and its possibilities.

Well, one of the things a lot of Americans don't know, when Mitt Romney is nominated a few days from now, he will be the most experienced executive to be nominated for the presidency since Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, who had run a university and had run the allied war effort. That's actually a big deal.

When you hear the party that glorified Occupy Wall Street blast success when you hear them minimize the genius of the men and women who make jobs out of nothing, is that what you teach your children about work?

Historyis nothing other than a collection of the lives of people, some of them great, some of them ordinarynothing other than a collection of what people have done in challenging circumstances and how they have risen to those circumstances.

John F. Kennedy asked us what we could do for America. This Democratic Party asks what can government give you. Don't worry about paying the bill, it's on your kids and grandkids.

With respect to Barack Obama, let's face it Barack Obama is an iconic figure in the African-American community. We respect that. We understand that. African-Americans are going to vote for the first black president, especially when he happens to share the liberal politics on economic issues that many in that community hold.

Sometimes running for Congress is a four-year strategy in terms of getting out there and building a network.

We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering.

You talk about the values that you have whether they're in favor or not in favor. That's how you lead. The reality is, we're losing more and more elections.

Sometimes in this country, we don't focus a lot on people's experience and their resume. Mitt Romney would be the most experienced executive to be nominated since 1952. The fundamental task for the next president is going to be fixing things, cleaning things up, being a turnaround artist, if you will.

The Democrats' ads convince me that Governor Romney can't sing, but his record convinces me he knows how to lead, and I think you know which skill we need more.

I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white.

This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future.