Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver could have been president. I could go on with a list of black men that were qualified to be the president of the United States. So the Obama victory is progress for white people.

I'm amazed that you could have the greatest portrait in the United States, of George Washington; you could have the Declaration of Independence desk, the desk on which it was written; you could have the hat that Abraham Lincoln had on the day he died, in buildings that really not only possibly endanger them, but the American people coming to look at them.

When George Washington was elected president, there was no national vote.

If I missed my moment, I missed my moment. I mean, I wasn't pining to be president of the United States.

He has to pander to the masses in the same way George Bush does in the United States. But in this country they don't talk about religion and God. They talk about keeping certain precious assets in the hands of the French.

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.