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.

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

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

I deplored a system that made it more profitable not to work than to work. I wanted to help change all that.

My entire life has been devoted to breaking down barriers, to finding common ground.

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.