President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.

Beauty and love are all my dream; They change not with the changing day; Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away.

I call upon both Republicans and Democrats to work with us to have a national ID card that is free and accessible. President Lyndon Johnson and Martin Luther King recognized was the greatest step for society was that short step into the voting booth. If we are to be true to their courage and conviction, we must make that short step as easy as possible. Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.

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

There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.

Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.

Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war, but we have made little or no progress in poverty. And it's because the economy has gotten more and more complex as we have globalized.