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

Historically we have rejected extremism on the left and the right. Centrism is the right course for America.

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

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.

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

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

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