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.

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.

I think I've advanced my views with compassion and tolerance.

Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.

The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.

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