I spent many years working for voting rights, but we still see sophisticated efforts, led by white officials, to disenfranchise black voters in local and national elections.

Election victories are a harvest. You plant the seed. For months or years, you water and tend them. In the election season, you reap the harvest.

I spent many years working for voting rights, but we still see sophisticated efforts, led by white officials, to disenfranchise black voters in local and national elections.

Once bitten, you seldom lose the political bug.

Historically we have rejected extremism on the left and the right. Centrism is the right course for America.

In elective politics, it's up or out. You go up the ladder, or you get out of the game.

Politics is not a tea party. When it is time to act, you have to move fast and decisively.