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

Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.

My solutions are to include Africa in the global economy, and not African charity, AIDS research, but African infrastructure development. And I think that Africa can import and needs everything the whole world can manufacture. And they have got enough money to pay for it. It's just that the money is in the ground.

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.

When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I've tried to tell my kids that you don't wait until you're in high school or college to start dealing with problems of people being different. The younger you start, the better.

I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.

Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got