The South has not always been the friendliest place for African-Americans.

I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security.

A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter.

Our solutions must be beyond anything we have ever considered. We should not be afraid to try bold new approaches.

The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates.

The president's budget request today demonstrates his unwillingness to come clean on the true costs of his agenda. A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter

Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we lost? 200,000.

From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.

If I had to vote for the bill again, I'd vote for it tomorrow.

I like being powerful. I hope it doesn't go to my head. If somebody's going to have it, it might just as soon be me. There's always power, and it's just a matter of in whose hands it falls.

Democracy still has a real hope and chance in Iraq, and true freedom in this country would be the greatest testament to those who gave their lives for it

Until the evil man finds evil unmistakably present in his existence, in the form of pain, he is enclosed in illusion.

The men at the top aren't that great at properly assessing the women under them, certainly not enough to gauge their potential or intestinal fortitude.

God’s power is the grace of prayer.

God is simply a magnificent state of the mind, where the finite turns infinite.

I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have.

Put your trust in Allah and not in anyone other than Him, because it is known that He alone is the Helper.

People think because I went to Yale that that implies privilege, and it is a privilege in the sense that it's an incredible opportunity.

Approach life knowing there will be plenty to go around. Be generous.

I try to keep a pretty one-tracked mind.

Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.