Frank Raines stood on the sidelines, leaving Eleanor Holmes Norton all by herself to fend against these big, bad, conservative Republicans,

You could certainly say that she is a very dedicated and active member of a conservative, evangelical Christian church.

I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican.

I am clearly more popular than Reagan. I am in my third term. Where's Reagan? Gone after two! Defeated by George Bush and Michael Dukakis no less.

The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.

There are two kinds of truth. There are real truths, and there are made up truths. [On his arrest for drug use]