All my playmates were black. I lived in a little community called Archery (ph) in a rural area. And I didn't have any white neighbors at all. So all my kids with whom I fought and wrestled and went fishing and worked in the field and so forth were African-Americans. And that was my life. So when I got to be school age, we had to separate during the daytime, but I always felt like I was in an alien environment when I was in Plains, Georgia with white kids. I was eager to get back where I belonged with my black playmates.

Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.

We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes - and we must.

I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.

I believe that we should do anything we can to minimize abortion and not to encourage it.

We believe in separation of church and state, that there should be no unwarranted influence on the church or religion by the state, and vice versa.

We cannot speak of human rights in other countries unless we are going to do our utmost to protect the rights of our own people here at home.