The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

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 tried. But not everybody thought so.

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.

The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.

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