Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans.

There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse.

It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law.

How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time.

Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options