Once bitten, you seldom lose the political bug.

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.

When taken for granted remember there are thousands out there that will value and cherish your friendship and effort-Just move on

Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.

Like a lover who spends all his time thinking of his distant love, God has been thinking of me since before I was born, for all eternity.

I think everybody would love to say they were in a movie. Whether or not I'm any good at it, I don't know.

...we make our lives by what we love.

As an actor, you're always reading scripts looking for something good.

we shall know that we have begun to speak true by an increased hunger for true-speaking; we shall have the whole hunger only after we have given ourselves the first taste of it.

If you yell at a kid and he gets mad at you, you've lost him. If you yell at a kid and he gets mad at himself, then you have something.

Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.

Liberty is a product of order.