My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.

Once bitten, you seldom lose the political bug.

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

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.

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

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.

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.