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.

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

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

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

I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.