There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.

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

I'm too mature to be angry.

That's just like America. It's made up of lots of different people. We're all different colors, different ages, we do different jobs -- but it takes all of us black people, white people, brown people, men and women, young and old, working in the factories, working in the fields, working in offices, working in stores -- it takes a lot of different kinds of people to get the job done for America.

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.

You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.

At least the politicians are accountable to the voters.