When democratic governments create economic calamity, free markets get the blame.

There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.

There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

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

Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit.

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

Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be tested again and again in the fiery furnace of history.