Labels applied to people of any race are inherently offensive.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If someone lies to you habitually, you can't ever trust them. It erodes relationships.

A ghost from her past, part of a world to which she no longer belonged but had never stopped missing.

Know yourselves- be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye.

If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly.

I could be your worst enemy. But i would rather have friends then enemies, and i go to great length to make that the case. There’s much more reward in having friends.

I was writing the Paraguay book, a Paragauyan told me that only five thousand people in Paraguay read.

There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven.

God creates men, but they choose each other.

Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.

You can have a million dollar, 20 million dollar budget or 60 million dollar budget, and if you don't have a good script, it doesn't mean a thing.