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

For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.

My daddy was determined to make me a dentist and a baseball player. And I loved my daddy but I wasted four years of college trying to do what he wanted me to do, and not what I felt I wanted to do.

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

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

I like my life. I've had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it's an easy burden.

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.