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.

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.

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.

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

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.