My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

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.

Everywhere I go, kids walk around not with books under their arms, but with radios up against their heads. Children can't read or write, but they can memorize whole albums.

President Obama projects a strong offense, but he faces a rebellious Congress focused on state's rights.

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

When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.

The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.