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

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.

In elective politics, it's up or out. You go up the ladder, or you get out of the game.

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.

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.

The member of Congress who forgets his constituents' needs usually serves only one term.