A four-hundred-dollar suit on him would look like socks on a rooster.

I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.

The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.

The Bible has much to say about the brevity of life and the necessity of preparing for eternity. I am convinced that only when a man is prepared to die is he also prepared to live.

When chasing success

You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.

If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.

When you're challenged, you're totally alive and totally dealing with reality, particularly if it could be dangerous. And that excites me!

After all, for mankind as a whole there are no exports. We did not start developing by obtaining foreign exchange from Mars or the moon. Mankind is a closed society.

Never wound a snake; kill it.

Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.

Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others.