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.

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

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.

America is the only country in the world that classifies as Negro any person who has one drop of African blood in his or her veins.

To stand still is to regress.

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.

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