Election victories are a harvest. You plant the seed. For months or years, you water and tend them. In the election season, you reap the harvest.

My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.

My entire life has been devoted to breaking down barriers, to finding common ground.

Labels applied to people of any race are inherently offensive.

I spent many years working for voting rights, but we still see sophisticated efforts, led by white officials, to disenfranchise black voters in local and national elections.

Politics is not a tea party. When it is time to act, you have to move fast and decisively.

You can't say the negro left the Republican party; the negro feels he was evicted from the Republican party.

In elective politics, it's up or out. You go up the ladder, or you get out of the game.

To stand still is to regress.

Historically we have rejected extremism on the left and the right. Centrism is the right course for America.

The member of Congress who forgets his constituents' needs usually serves only one term.

When you look away from a homeless person, you diminish their humanity and your own.

As much as it hurts, I would rather miss someone than hit someone.

Maybe home is nothing but two arms holding you tight when you’re at your worst.

I assumed, "Well, I must've sounded like Conan O'Brien, or a reasonable facsimile or something." And there I am in the movie [South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut ]. I was very lucky.

Im very strongly in favor of the auteur theory.

I always love China, especially the old China.

A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.

Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.

You have to be possessive about who you love

I was my own woman. The next step was to find the proper sort of man.