You can't say the negro left the Republican party; the negro feels he was evicted from the Republican party.

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.

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.

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

All wars are full of stories that sound like fiction.

Hypocrite shouts about the change, but never let risk coming on his way.

A silent room is not an affluent room.

I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, As long as I'm livingmy baby you'll be.

Once you've got a child to the point that they've discovered books, they're safe. There's a world of the imagination that when they're hurt or upset, they can move into, and it is wonderful.

The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting.

As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy a rent-free space in your mind.

I'm so in love, every time I look at you my soul gets dizzy.

Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.

I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin.