Politics is not a tea party. When it is time to act, you have to move fast and decisively.

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.

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.

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.

Love imprints a memory on the heart that no one can erase.

I’m glad we can be friends.”There’s that word again. It’s like a safe word.

Having a passive personality, is a soft way to live a dead life.

I've always been proud to represent my country, whether it be World Cups, European Championships or just friendly games, I've always been a proud person, I'm very patriotic.

Compassionate conservative soft bigotry of low expectations.

If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.

Back then they had Elvis and they thought Elvis was so risqué. So everyone has their perception to what innocence is.

No paradox, no progress.

I don't even know what I don't even know.

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.