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’d like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts. That’s how I’d like to be remembered.

I have never cared too much what people say. What I am interested in is what they do.

As things are now, no one can tell to whom members of Congress are responsible, except that it does not often appear to be to the people. Everyone else is represented in Washington by a rich and powerful lobby, it seems. But there is no lobby for the people.

We have never seen health as a right. It has been conceived as a privilege, available only to those who can afford it. This is the real reason the American health care system is in such a scandalous state.

Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.

Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other.