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

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

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

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

Once bitten, you seldom lose the political bug.

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.