Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is 'not a Christian, he was not born here, he is not one of us.' That makes addressing such issues trickier for the first African-American in the White House.

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.

If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.

That Obama I would like to cut his nuts off.

What we have to be judged by is the work we try to do. It's public service, not perfect service.

When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility.

America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.