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

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

To stand still is to regress.

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.

Labels applied to people of any race are inherently offensive.

When people treat corruption as a routine part of the process, you have something far worse than wrongdoing or moral failing. You have a political cancer that breeds cynicism about democratic government and infects all of society.