Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.

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

Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right.

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

The question becomes what kind of coalition can we build that will make a transition and empower the people of Iraq? The American soldiers' presence there is an act of provocation. There's a big red ball on the back of every American soldier in that country, so our being there contributes to the crisis, it does not resolve the crisis.

The crown jewel of Dr. King`s movement was to protect the right to vote for all citizens.

Unfortunate. Unfortunate. Sometimes people struggling for freedom lose their way.