Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.

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

Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.

Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.

In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.

I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.

Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.

Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.

I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.

Laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws - to perpetuate injustice through inaction.

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

The way we relate with people is the same way we relate with God

A good leader lead from the heart not the head.

The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way.

I don't have any secrets I need kept any more.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

There are very few good judges of humor, and they don't agree.

America is Republican until 5:00 or 6:00 at night.

I'm not trying to fall in love on the Jersey Shore. I'm just trying to hook up.

President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.