The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.

As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.

I don't think of myself as a Negro. I'm a Southerner. I just like the Southern way of life.

It takes people who have a widespread series of experiences to develop future leaders. It takes people who aren't afraid to challenge and move forward.

There's this big debate that goes on in America about what rights are: Civil rights, human rights, what they are? it's an artificial debate. Because everybody has rights. Everybody has rights - I don't care who you are, what you do, where you come from, how you were born, what your race or creed or color is. You have rights. Everybody's got rights.

Discrimination is discrimination no matter who the victim is, and it is always wrong. There are no special rights in America, despite the attempts by many to divide blacks and the gay community with the argument that the latter are seeking some imaginary special rights at the expense of blacks.

The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side.