Rhetoric never won a revolution yet.

When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nation’s slums, maintains them and profits by them, white America could not believe it. But it is true. Unless we start to fight and defeat the enemies in our own country, poverty and racism, and make our talk of equality and opportunity ring true, we are exposed in the eyes of the world as hypocrites when we talk about making people free - (Chapter 9).

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

To label family planning and legal abortion programs "genocide" is male rhetoric, for male ears.

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency.

I love America not for what she is, but for what she can become.