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

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

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.

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.

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.

Labels applied to people of any race are inherently offensive.