Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.

Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.

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.

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.

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

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