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

My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers.

How can you have in our country that is based upon liberality and liberation, be so anti-liberal. That's toxic waste to our consciousness. It's hard to be an American conservative because that's a contradiction in terms. Now if you take away freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of protest, and lock people out based upon their race, their language and their religion, that's conservative and fascist. America is a liberal idea.

God doesn't make orange juice, God makes oranges.

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

Hymies." And "Hymietown.

I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.