I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me.

The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president.

No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there's no future in riots.

So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.

George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.

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

So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.