There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.

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.

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.

Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.

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

I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.