I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.

All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

Health care amounts to l4% of our GNP-a lot of money. It is the size of the Italian economy. And the president turned it over to his wife.

Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.

There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.

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.