Sometimes, the thing that ties you down sets you free.

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.

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

When you get to my age, you find that most of your dear friends are gone.

I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians.

My kids never had the advantages I had. I was born poor.

I have always been grateful that my Russian mother and father came to this country to give me a better chance, and I have had a better chance.