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.

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.

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

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

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

If you want to change your nation, you have to start a conversation.

Music is love in search of a word.

We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.

When the body is sad, the heart languishes.

You think beautiful girls are going to stay in style forever? I should say not! Any minute now they're going to be out! Finished! Then it'll be my turn!

The prerequisite for making love is to like someone enormously.

For some reason, Hollywood seems to have painted me as a gorgeous vixen at times or the sweet girl.

There were mornings when I just didn't want to get out of bed. But once again, I'm in an adverse situation and having to deal with something new and learn how to do it.

Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.

Part of the broader task of Christian scholarship is to help create and sustain a cultural milieu in which the gospel can be heard as an intellectually viable option for thinking men and women.