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

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.

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.

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

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

To find people who don't want anything is rare.

The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.