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

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

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.

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.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

I will never forget the feeling of walking into my home, a place that while drifting helpless in the middle of the Indian Ocean I wondered if I would ever see again.

I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing Japanese manga culture.

Because when a guy does something stupid once, well, that’s because he’s guy. But if he does the same stupid thing twice, that’s usually to impress some girl.

Humor is one of the primary tools for liberation.

The miracle often lies outside our comfort zone.

Prayer is the key that unlocks all the storehouses of God's. . .grace and power.

Choose to be kind over being right and you'll be right everytime.

Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.

From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?