Now, America is a land of second chances, and I gather you have room for the estimated 6 million of us who know we got it wrong in 2008 and who want to fix it.

Wearing a Democratic label no longer matches what I know about my country and its possibilities.

This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future.

You talk about the values that you have whether they're in favor or not in favor. That's how you lead. The reality is, we're losing more and more elections.

I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white.

Sometimes running for Congress is a four-year strategy in terms of getting out there and building a network.

The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.

John F. Kennedy asked us what we could do for America. This Democratic Party asks what can government give you. Don't worry about paying the bill, it's on your kids and grandkids.

Ask yourself if these Democrats still speak for you. When they say we have a duty to grow government even when we can't afford it, does it sound like compassion to you - or recklessness?

I know 100 percent what it's like to have people tell you that you can't hold an office because of your color, and to have people vote based on that belief.

The Democrats' ads convince me that Governor Romney can't sing, but his record convinces me he knows how to lead, and I think you know which skill we need more.

Now when I die, I shall only be dead.

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

I kind of like to look like a hobo.

I'll run one day. Run for my life. To be free and think for myself...I'll run to be emancipated.

People get trapped in the way things should feel and less focused on the way things should function.

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

When I can't sleep, I don't count sheep. I count lovers. And by the time I reach 38 or 39, I'm asleep.

To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.

History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.