If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with.

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.

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

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

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.

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.