If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.

The only advantage I have found in being Jewish is that I can be openly anti-Semitic.

I have been trying to create a campaign to have our country make an apology for slavery, for the way that blacks were treated before the Civil War and after the Civil War.

My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty.

If I can get enough signatures, to present an apology to slavery, I will present it to the President. The House of Representatives has already passed the resolution for the apology, but it has to pass the Senate. I think, in spite of all our problems, I think we're in the right direction.

Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.

You'll never see Spartacus in a (expletive) chair!