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

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

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.

Labels applied to people of any race are inherently offensive.

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.