I love the life I live. The Lord blessed me to be independent. I am independent.

I'm against abortion.

I loved Clinton; not as a Democrat, but as a person.

Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us.

I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby.

We need to take responsibility and educate people. That's why black folks don't like me. I always say it's our responsibility to make safe neighborhoods. It's our job to get them cleaned up.

I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.

Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you.

This is a racist country.

I'd rather be dead and in heaven than afraid to do what I think is right.

I'm a Republican and I'm gonna stay a Republican because they need somebody like me to stay in the Party and keep hammering away.

The only regret I have is that I couldn't teach you a lesson in humanity and humility. A mother should not depend on his son and that's the one mistake I committed.

You are the most important person in the world. Every single of you. Don’t let anybody tell you differently, okay?,

Most of them don't know what communism is, could not pick it out of a lineup. They only know what anticommunism is. The two are practically unrelated.

In life, the things that go wrong are often the very things that lead to other things going right.

My manager said the next best inspiration to heartbreak is travel, and it's true.

There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.

They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.

I'd rather invest in an entrepreneur who has failed before than one who assumes success from day one.

My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation for anything you do, so I wanted to get a classical background and voice.

This time it had been magic. And it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done.