Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

God doesn't make orange juice, God makes oranges.

We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.

I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.

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.

There was a direct jobs program from the Rooselvelt administration in the 1930s. The Justice Department has set up a task force to investigate the banks and the mortgage crisis but that's a little too late. Whenever they report they will report the obvious. It will be too late to impact the people who need the help the most.

We are facing a stiff wind right now, but if we persist and keep fighting back, we will prevail.