If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.

I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come - and gone. It's time for change in America.

They are cutting medicare

[My mom] had this amazing attitude in the face of everything, including when she got cancer.

One of the main reasons we ought to re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to constructive cooperation... He appointed Republican secretaries of defense, the Army and transportation. He appointed a vice president who ran against him in 2008.

Just try to imagine what it would be like to be 300 million years old.

If you want to know where I come by the passionate commitment I have to bringing people together without regard to race, it all started with my grandfather.