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.

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

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

There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.

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.

Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

... giving tax incentives for more labor ownership of company stock will do more to create jobs and increase productivity than all the "emergency full employment" bills proposed.