The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.

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.

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

No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.

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.

To find people who don't want anything is rare.

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