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

What we have to be judged by is the work we try to do. It's public service, not perfect service.

Obama used to be a community organizer. He knows how to build communities.

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

I do not deny the allegation, I deny the allegator.

I'm a Third World person. I grew up in an occupied zone [Greenville, South Carolina] and had to negotiate with the superpower, really the colonial power.

We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.