When we were hit on 9/11 it took us a few weeks to get the coalition together because [George] Bush had come in with a kind of narrow ideology, looking at the world, I'd say, through a keyhole and not through a door.

Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.

You cannot have a diplomatic offensive without talking.

I want to make America better!

If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.