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

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

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.

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

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.

To stand still is to regress.