On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it's, 'Women are coming!' Get 10 blacks and it's, 'Blacks are coming!' 'Hispanics are coming!' Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don't move. In the economy, the number of chairs can actually increase.

You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.

If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.

If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.

So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.

Unfortunate. Unfortunate. Sometimes people struggling for freedom lose their way.

Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.