If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.

If you take advantage of everything that America has to offer, there's nothing you can't accomplish.

My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.

But I made one mistake which I would never repeat as a member of Congress when I was in Washington, and that was when I was elected I didn't go on trips because I was so afraid of having someone accuse me of taking junkets.

I should have had a circuitous answer; that was a non-answer.

I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible.

People who live through transplants or disasters like Sept. 11 are survivors.