Any racial reconciliation we've had in this country has come not out of confrontation but out of a spirit of reconciliation. If we continue to practice an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we'll eventually end up with a land of people who are blind and toothless.

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

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.

It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

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.

We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.