Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can't afford it.

I tell people, 'If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete's feet don't exist, there's something wrong.

If it wasn't for Abe Lincoln, I'd still be on the open market.

Black folks tell their kids they have to be twice as good as a white person? Well, if I tell a child of mine that, or that they have to be careful - that this is what a cop would do if you do this - they think something is wrong with them. I tell them death is better.

White folks are the luckiest people: Finally a black president and he's a behaved one. Went to the best schools, best colleges, never raises his voice. I ran for president in 1968. I tell (audiences) if I won, I would have dug up the Rose Garden and planted watermelon!