Once bitten, you seldom lose the political bug.

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.

You can't say the negro left the Republican party; the negro feels he was evicted from the Republican party.

Labels applied to people of any race are inherently offensive.

The member of Congress who forgets his constituents' needs usually serves only one term.

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

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.