We must renew the economy from the bottom up, not top down.

I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.

When I first went to jail in 1960 with seven classmates trying to use their public library against the backdrop of my father being a veteran of World War II, not being able to use - having to sit behind Nazi on American military bases, I lost my fear of jails and death.

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.

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

No lie can live forever.

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.