When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

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

When I was a boy we were poor and we had to make do with what we had. So my grandma used to make us quits that we used for blankets. She couldn't afford to go to the store and buy a blanket -- so she'd take scraps of cloth and sew them together. there'd be different colors and different patterns and different types of cloth -- but they all went together to make that big quilt to keep us warm.

There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism.

A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don't cry about what you don't have. Use what you got.

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.

No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there's no future in riots.