You don't put an animal in the corner without the animal striking back, you don't put a politician in the corner and without them expecting to strike back at you.

We need to give everybody a chance, treat everybody with respect, and let them share in this great American dream that we have.

I’m concerned about the fact there seems to be a war on the poor - that if you’re poor, somehow you’re shiftless and lazy.

We've got to unite our country again, because we're stronger when we are united and we are weaker when we are divided.

Everybody should have a chance to rise. That's our philosophy in Ohio and that's my philosophy for America.

A leader has a sound program, has a good policy, and then brings people together to solve problems.

If you go into a room of 100-plus people, and you want to be the prince of darkness, you can be it. But I don't operate in the dark, I operate in the light.

Every time I go to Washington, I break out in a cold sweat. So I try not to spend too much time there.

I've always been underestimated. It's happened throughout my entire career.

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

You cannot build a little guy up by tearing a big guy down. Abraham Lincoln said it...

It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't - which, of course, is pretty often - she is surprised and affronted.

There is nothing in man or nature that does not ask questions.

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

The people of Ethiopia are saying they've had enough of the killings and are tired of being exiled, imprisoned, beaten and we are done. We have had enough. We want peace now.

This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression.

That movie, 'Airplane!,' what a landmark film it was. It's a great, great movie.

In fiction, you can be as true as you want. Real life is a different story.

Black women are very capable of leading our organizations. I believe that firmly.

My people do not come to me of their own accord; it is I who seek and bring them to me.

I am a person who goes out without a purse. I put things in my coat pockets, so I don't have any accessories.