The member of Congress who forgets his constituents' needs usually serves only one term.

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.

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.

Don't waste your time being envious of what you don't have or who you want to be. Instead, focus on what you do have and who you can become.

The biggest payoff in achieving a goal is not what you get, but who you've become.

Previous experience had taught me that any expedition marches on its stomach.

He made me question what was, when for a whole lifetime up till that moment, I accepted the world’s excuses.

If there is one thing I know, it is this, rich people are remarkably unremarkable.

If they’re together long enough, every couple has one conversation over and over. This was ours.

Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don't match how they really are.

Consideration touches more deeply and longer than passion.

The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.