The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.

We must win the war on poverty by enlisting the greatest weapon ever invented - free enterprise

When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.

The chance to own a home; chance to own an education; chance to get access to capital. This is the real civil rights battle of the twenty-first century.

Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.

The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.