My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.

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.

People want opportunity so they can earn security.

I don't use labels a lot.

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

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