If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

I was much more comfortable and a much better congressman running in a district that was 37 percent black, where I had to have a white constituency to get elected, than I would have been if I was in a 75 percent black district.

Everybody is determined by his own experience.

I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.

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

I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.

Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.