Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.

We've changed in the sense that we flipped - and this is no longer the Republican party of Lincoln. This is the party of suppression.

Everybody in America has been dependent on the government at some time. We owe everybody in America the right to vote and access to capital. What I say is, let's make America work, let's make democracy and free enterprise work for everybody.

Everything that has happened in my life is because of good government and because the United States of America was the greatest nation on the face of the earth.

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

Nobody black had learned anything from the 'Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the 'I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.