“I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.”
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Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.
I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.
I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.
My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.
