Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.

Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.

I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

Everybody is determined by his own experience.

I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.

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