If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.

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.

I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

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 wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.

I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.