"I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it."

"I would love to be associated with some sports organization. I was a journalism major. That's kind of intriguing, to do something in the political-commentary arena."

"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."

"I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community, despite being subscription television's most valuable customers, they are very underserved by cable and satellite television programming options."

"I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead."

"War is not the only arena where peace is done to death."

"Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has."

"I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one."