“And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres.”

“Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.”

“Anybody who runs for president in this country and comes out as strong as the Democrats were about helping the poor folks and black folks is not going to win.”

“I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for.”

“I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.”

“I don't believe in welfare.”

“I feel there should be blacks in every Party.”

“I love the life I live. The Lord blessed me to be independent. I am independent.”

“I loved Clinton; not as a Democrat, but as a person.”

“I'd rather be dead and in heaven than afraid to do what I think is right.”

“I'm a Republican and I'm gonna stay a Republican because they need somebody like me to stay in the Party and keep hammering away.”

“I'm a Republican, by the way.”

“I'm against abortion.”

“I'm against an all-white anything or an all-black anything.”

“I'm for economic independence.”

“I'm for prayer in schools.”

“Iraq did nothing to us. Iraq was not responsible for 9/11.”

“It's wrong to kill.”

“So I'm in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else.”

“The main thing I believe in is freedom.”

“The problem is, the Republican Party hasn't done anything to make this country better and I speak as a Republican.”

“The Republican Party does not reach out.”

“The Republican Party is not inclusive.”

“This is a racist country.”

“We've begun to get justice.”

“We've begun to put fear into those whites who think they can do anything they want to a black person and get away with it.”