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

Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have taken on plastic chains around their minds and souls and mortgage their future on credit cards. They have to learn better - they have to learn the value of ideas and health as opposed to wealth.

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.

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.

Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.