Our dreams must be stronger than our memories.

George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.

Leaders must be tough enough to fight, tender enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes, humble enough to admit them, strong enough to absorb the pain, and resilient enough to bounce back and keep on moving.

The fact is in a city like Chicago, for example, unemployment in the black community is around 20 percent for adults, 35 percent for youth, they bail out the banks, public schools, there is a deep divide. We need a plan for reconstruction and redevelopment and I hope that - police are the gatekeepers but behind that gate are these problems of disparities and injustice.

You can't teach what you don't know. And you can't lead where you don't go.

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

That's all Hymie wants to talk about is Israel. Every time you go to Hymietown that's all they want to talk about.