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.

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.

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

Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.

Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.

Beauty and love are all my dream; They change not with the changing day; Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away.

Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.