For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.

Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly.

I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.

I had to get a second passport in a hurry.

Everybody is determined by his own experience.

Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.

If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living.