I heard somebody say that you can't judge a tree by the bark it wears but by the fruit it bears.

Sometimes your gift takes you to a place that your character is not prepared to handle.

My kids want to go back to Detroit everyday, that's their home. They want to be there. But Detroit is going through something that I don't want to be a part of.

My dream in growing up in the city of Detroit was to be Mayor. At the family picnics from the time I was 9-years-old that's what I told people I was going to be. The mayor of the city of Detroit.

I was never fearful or scared. I knew God had me and my wife and children knew it as well so we just marched.

This is the United States of America and unfortunately, race still matters to a lot of people. The evil head of racism doesn't hide, it sticks its head up.

What I learned in politics (is that) it's a very enslaving place to be. It's hard to be free in politics and if the search for your spirit is to be free, it's hard.

Personality is a person among persons. There is no personality of one man on a desert island.

I was building the plane while flying it in the first term.

Michigan is very racially separated and the city of Detroit itself is 84 percent African-American and the surrounding suburbs are 86 percent White.

The job of being president, understanding the particular policies that America has gotten itself into over the past 400 years.

History affects our future but it doesn’t determine it.

Wouldn't the worst be, isn't the worst, in truth, that women aren't castrated, that they have only to stop listening to the Sirens (for the Sirens were men) for history to change its meaning?

Beauty will never fade away from the eyes of those who love one another.

ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.

I've been here before and will come again, but I'm not going this trip through.

You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about.

But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.

Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of the element.

America's all about the various voices, right? When we all speak with a common voice we verge on fascism, which is militaristic, and fundamentally anti-American.

Even if you're an agnostic or an atheist, you can create an altar, because an altar is simply paying homage to someone's life and celebrating what they did.