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.

Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.

I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.

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

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

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.