I think that any time you look at the fact that boycotts have historically led to change, whatever temporary inconvenience there may be, it in the long run leads toward, in my opinion, a better change for everybody.

I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.

During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.

Some issues you just - you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.

We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.

I need to hear something about how he`s going to bring people together in the spirit, hopefully, of Martin Luther King Jr., and if that`s not heard, then we`ve got to constantly challenge him.

It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.