He told his son-in-law in December: "I will not say I would not serve if the good people were to be so unwise as to elect me."

VOA: special.2009.03.05

"Republicans were very down after the 2008 and 2006 elections and really,polls numbers are not so good for them today as a party,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

that you are not as good. So the message of the Buffalo Soldiers is that in that time when racism was at its most virulent, that there were people, there were men who said, 'No,you're wrong, I am just as good as you are.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25