All values are important, everyone who has ever touched my life in some way was a mentor for good or bad. Life is a blend, and a person is a blend of all the influences that have touched their lives.

The best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method

The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.

The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.