Armstrong Williams

A global democracy works only when countries trust one another.

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.

The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce.

Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities.

Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God.

Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.

Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.