Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.

We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.

Your house is your first small business. It's where your investment is and [where] our greatest asset is.

America is not like a blanket- one piece of unbroken cloth. America is more like a quilt- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven together by a common thread.

The first thing that has to happen is the protection of voting rights and registration.

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

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