Roxie is very deserving of this award. She runs our office. No matter what, she is always willing to do whatever it takes to help me or help our staff. Roxie does it all. She has a lot of experience in this district and everyone has the highest respect for her.

We are grateful to our customers who, over the past year supported our charitable efforts, and to our employees who participated with us in various events that helped raise funds for local organizations.

There's already been black presidents who've been corrupt, so it doesn't strike me that having a black man in office means he's going to be the Messiah.

The economical policies that are instigated really makes you think that the American government is a bunch of evil bastards. So just because you're black, you're still representing that government, and when Obama came into office he enacted the same policies that we would critique other presidents for.

I interned for the Knicks for one year doing community relations, but I absolutely hated it. It was a desk job, and the team was not good at all, and I didn't realize how much that correlated to the office. It was just gray, gloomy days.

For me, I never wore my religion on my sleeve, you know what I'm saying? I never put myself out there as Lupe Fiasco, he's Muslim, he's from Chicago, he likes to ride a skateboard.