Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

When we were hit on 9/11 it took us a few weeks to get the coalition together because [George] Bush had come in with a kind of narrow ideology, looking at the world, I'd say, through a keyhole and not through a door.

You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.

It'll be a great day when the seniors have all the baseball caps they need and the Pentagon bombs Gilligan's Island.

We picked their cotton. We cooked their food. We nursed their babies. Now we can run their cities. We can run their states. We will run the country.

The only justification we have to look down on someone is because we are about to pick him up.

There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism.