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.

Marriage is a civil right. If you don't want gay people to marry in your church, good for you. But you can't say they can't marry in your city.

Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person

The First Amendment means everything to me.

You could not be in the civil rights movement without having an appreciation for everybody's rights. That these rights are not divisible - not something men have and women don't and so on.

I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years

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